Lindsay Lohan’s comeback continues, and she’s bringing rom-coms with her
In a new conversation with Mean Girls co-star Amanda Seyfried, Lindsay Lohan says she wants to make more goofy romances—and that she wouldn't say no to the MCU
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Now that Falling For Christmas has found its footing on Netflix and the Lohan-aissance is underway, Lindsay Lohan has some thinking to do. After a turbulent decade-plus in the industry, what’s the best way to orchestrate a continued comeback? In a new interview with her former Mean Girls co-star Amanda Seyfried, Lohan shares one thing she wants to be a part of her next act: good romantic comedies.
“If it’s done right, it’s good,” Lohan says of the rom-com in the conversation, published in Interview Magazine. “It doesn’t all have to be cheesy and over-the-top.”
Despite the recent rom-com renaissance, Lohan and Seyfried agree that a troubling drought fell over Hollywood for a moment there; classically comedic, mid-budget romances became about as rare as packed-to-the-aisles movie theaters. “I just feel like people stopped making them,” Seyfried muses.
“I noticed that before I did Falling for Christmas,” Lohan tells Seyfried of the rom-com scarcity problem. “I was like, ‘Well, if I’m going to do a movie, it has to be a rom-com because there aren’t any right now.’”
With Falling For Christmas recently under her belt, Lohan already has her sights set on another romantic comedy, Irish Wish. In the film, Lohan reportedly stars as Maddie, a bridesmaid who embodies the “be careful what you wish for” trope after making an ill-fated (and swiftly granted) cosmic plea to be the wedding’s bride. Lohan will again work with Falling For Christmas director Janeen Damian.
Beyond rom-coms, Lohan has an omnivorous taste for roles these days, especially characters in genres she hasn’t broached before, like thrillers or action movies. Would Lohan ever want to join the MCU, Seyfried asks?
“Yeah,” Lohan responds simply, “That would be cool.” Discourse who?
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Lindsay Lohan says … that she wouldn’t say no to the MCU
Worker wouldn’t turn down work. Movie at 11.
Yeah, it’d only be interesting if she said she didn’t want to be in it ever.
Hell, Lindsay could say she doesn’t consider those movies “true cinema”, and then we’d get 100 AV Club articles out of it.
Seems like only me, Lindsay, Aubrey, Marty, and Steve are waiving that theatrical flag these days.
I suspect very soon the DCU will be where actors will want to be cast. I think Marvel movies will always make money but I feel DC is about to get a lot more interesting.
Wonder what Tarantino & Scorsese think about that?
Would you ask Tom Petty that question?
The worst thing Matthew McConaughey ever did was make people think adding “-aissance” to the end of an actor’s name was a good idea.
My family used to make yearly trips to the Lohan-aissance Fair. Then covid happened.
Is that the one where she was available as a Middle Eastern escort?
Truly, we’re living in the aissanceaissance.
Actually, it’s the Enlightaissance.
Based on Bros’ box office returns, no the fuck she isn’t.
Lindsay Lohan’s comeback continues, and she’s bringing rom-coms with her.And cocaine. So much of that sweet, sweet cocaine.
Would Lohan ever want to join the MCU, Seyfried asks?“Yeah,” Lohan responds simply, “That would be cool.”No, it wouldn’t be cool.Lohan is a few years older than I am and I crushed hard on her 15+ years ago, but I can’t think of any role she could fill in the MCU that wouldn’t best be suited for someone else.
yeah it would be cool fool
Hot take … well, not hot, really—tepid take:I watched Falling for Christmas and it’s a bad movie, but it’s not bad because of Lindsay Lohan. She’s decent in it while surrounded by a cast of supporting characters who are notably sub-decent (especially her leading man, who has all the charisma of a cardboard box). Give her a script that doesn’t sound like it was written by a rom-com AI cooked up by a high school student for a science fair, and it might actually be watchable. I’m not saying it will happen, but it could.
nah it’s a good movie
Dude, where is her left eye going? Is it stuck like that??
I want the head of whoever summoned this woman back from the Abyss. We spilled too much blood banishing her for some dunderhead to keep saying her name out loud until she rematerialized.(Note to PR: I told you idiots not to leave the Candyman loophole in the spoken part of the spell but nooooo…. and now look where we are. Jackasses.)Bring me their head.
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Can anyone explain what “Discourse who?” means? The linked article didn’t really help.
She wants to make good rom-coms, but she made a terrible rom-com.