Working with Lindsay Lohan at her worst was "a real cyclone of madness"
She began her career as a model when she was three years old, and by the time she turned ten she was practically a veteran: in 1998 she starred in You to London and I to California and entered the Disney universe through the front door, considered by the public and critics as the great promise of entertainment. She appeared alongside Chad Michael Murray in Freaky Friday and cemented her status as a teen icon in Mean Girls, one of the enduring classics of the 2000s. And, after more than fifteen movies and dozens of television appearances, the Hollywood lifestyle has come over him.
The second half of the decade was explosive for Lindsay Lohan: a failed music career, problems with her family, and the worst criticism of her personal life and her film aptitude turned the attitude of the press upside down. Amid a spiral of drugs, accidents, and courts, she was constantly scrutinized and disqualified, and she reacted: by puffing out her chest and multiplying her excesses under her watchful eye, challenging the aggressive media attention as she went in and out of rehab.
She was the victim of her partner, the Russian millionaire Egor Tarabasov, who appeared hitting her in some recordings that were made public. And shortly after turning thirty, he decided to 'disappear' and leave the United States: “My past has to stay in the past,” he told The Magazine. It is gone. Is dead".
Now, she is preparing her return to the screens after earning a living as a businesswoman. What happened to Lindsay Lohan?
Money Factory for Disney
As a child, her face appeared in more than a hundred advertisements and television series before becoming a Disney star. The Parent Trap ('You to London and I to California') achieved a million-dollar box office and became the most iconic children's comedy of the decade. Playing the double role of two estranged twins, who meet by chance and conspire to reconcile with their parents, she won her first popularity award and a contract to make three more films: Life-Size ('A Real Doll') and Get a Clue. ('Young journalists'), which was followed by the success of Freaky Friday.
Entitled Put Yourself in my place in Spain, it was valued by several professional critics and continues to be, even today, the greatest commercial success of his career: it launched at the MTV Movie Awards and led to another leading role in Disney and his first independent film. Outside the company: Mean Girls ('Mean Girls'), the film signed by Tina Fey in which she starred alongside Lizzy Caplan, Amanda Seyfried, and Rachel McAdams.
Fifteen years later, Mean Girls remains a cult 'modern classic': slogans like "Wednesdays we wear pink" are printed on merchandising items, and its designated date, October 3rd, is informally known as International Women's Day. the movie. Lohan won three Teen Choice Awards, signed other million-dollar contracts, and made reports and dolls about her: she was the golden girl of Hollywood.
A**lt transition and free fall
In 2007 she starred, along with Chris Pine and the British band McFly, in the film -and a strange commercial maneuver- Give me back my luck, which was her first flop and a nomination for worst actress. He took note, and from then on he tried to carve out a name for himself in more films with notorious personalities: he worked alongside Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, and Jane Fonda, great Hollywood legends who only had good feelings towards his presence, his personality and his talent. as an actress.
But, in her private life, she was already at the center of the hurricane. According to the biography of the members of McFly, the actress was already using cocaine on the set of Give me back my luck. And, according to her father, it was on this set that she suffered her first overdose. On set, she would arrive late, make a fuss or forget her lines, turning the job into "hell" for crew members and a drain on money for producers, who unofficially blamed her for the commercial failure.
Chris Pine (Wonder Woman, Star Trek) described working with Lindsay Lohan in this period as "A real cyclone of madness, like being around the Beatles. It was fascinating to watch, and with perspective also a moment of clarity in my life: I was able to see how wonderful what we were doing was while being aware, too, of all its dangers."
She made television cameos, and appearances in magazines and movies, and from all her professional spaces she had to scare the press: she was arrested for driving drunk and for carrying cocaine, and the courts sent her to rehab six times. Her father also had a prison record, mainly for fraud, and her outburst ran parallel to her parent's divorce. Until an interview with Oprah in 2014, Lohan would continue to deny her addiction to alcohol: she said that her steps in clinics had to do with "finding herself" and her need to spend time alone, although her personal life was in decline. free.
He always spoke of the media spotlight as an unwanted nuisance, but he could never help it: he used to party with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, a friendship that fell apart, and he broke all Playboy sales records when he appeared on its cover, dressed as Marilyn Monroe. She continued to be in and out of rehab while playing roles in line with the turbulent attitudes she represented, such as the Elizabeth Taylor biopic Liz & Dick, where she stepped into the shoes of the actress.
Recovery, far from the United States
Following her interview with Oprah, an in-depth look at her entire life, she left the United States to work in Europe: she did plays, films, and television in Belgium and the UK. And, in mid-2016, a video was leaked showing an attack by her boyfriend, the Russian millionaire Egor Tarabasov, with whom she was living in London: "Please. He almost killed me," she said to a man on the balcony. neighbor.
After this episode of gender violence, Lindsay Lohan left show business behind: she moved to Dubai, where she worked as a party manager, and then to Greece, where she opened a 'beach club' that would be the subject of a brief reality show on MTV. In Europe, she has made the appearance of her in various award ceremonies, parties, and fashion events, also in our country.
In July of last year, she was part of the jury for Australian talent, and she has remained in relative obscurity until this summer when she intended to make her return to the big screen in a shoot that was cut short by the coronavirus crisis. Due to her activity in recent months, it seems that she is reconciling with her past: during confinement, she participated in the reunion of the cast of You to London and I to California, and has shown interest in participating in a 'reboot ' from Mean Girls.
On July 2, she turned 34 and declared that she was finally in a quiet place in her life: "It's my birthday and I had a really nice day," she said at the beginning of the video that she shared on Instagram. "I was thinking about how many extravagant birthdays I've had, and how lucky we are to be surrounded by the people who love us and the people we love, and how simple the secret is," said the actress, moved by the global situation. “I am now 34 years old and I am very happy and grateful to have good people in my life, and I hope to share that with others in my work and in everything I do from here on out.”
