A day at work with LiLo sounds fun - Paul Schrader describes it as "tardiness, tantrums, absences, neediness and psychodrama"
Lindsay at the premiere for Scary Movie 5: surely her new film will be better than that movie?
Last year, Lindsay Lohan made what is certain to be a classic of
modern cinema - The Canyons, co-starring porn star James Deen and
directed by legendary Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader.
At the
time, Lindsay was running into all kinds of trouble - she was in the
middle of several court cases and being followed by paparazzi all the
time. This was pre-rehab, obvs.
And now, Paul Schrader has spoken out about exactly what it was like working with LiLo, and it sounds pretty stressful.
"Tardiness,
tantrums, absences, neediness and psychodrama: Lindsay feels she must
be experiencing an emotion in order to play it," he explains. "This
leads to all sorts of emotional turmoil, not to mention on-set delays
and melodrama." Lindsay having a little cry on telly earlier this year
'I really love you', Lindsay said to the glass of wine
Comparing the actress
to her idol Marilyn Monroe, he added: "I think Lohan has more natural
talent than Monroe did, but like Monroe, her weakness is her inability
to fake it. Monroe and Lohan exist in the space between actors and
celebrities. People whose professional and personal performances are
more or less indistinguishable. … We call them ‘troubled,’ ‘tormented,’
‘train wrecks,’ but we can’t turn away. We can’t stop watching. They get
under our skin in a way that controlled performers can’t."
But,
he ends up admitting that she's actually pretty interesting to watch.
"All the drama, all the stress, that means little. A director can shoot
around misbehavior. He can’t shoot around lack of charisma." 'Moi? A diva?'
The film's out on 9 August, and Lindsay's hoping to be out of rehab and at the premiere in Venice, at a film festival.
Her
co-star James Deen previously described working with Lindsay as "like
working with a child" and the screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis was once so
annoyed at Lindsay failing to turn up to work, he Tweeted threats to go
round to her house. She should just get really good at excuses, like
the person who turns up ten minutes late to work everyday, mumbling
something about buses and traffic ...
