Lauren Hutton interviews Lindsay Lohan

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 9:42am

LL: I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be. When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones." Like, what is the great film that I will tell my children about? I'm still going to tell them about the old films, the Hitchcock films. And people my age don't even know who those people are. I can't even have a conversation with most people of my generation about that, because they'd be like, "Okay, she's a freak. Something's wrong with her." And the worst part is, in terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn't know how to focus, doesn't know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party. And you know what? I was 20 years old. I never went to college. And I lived maybe six months out of my life like that, doing something wrong, and then I stopped. God forbid I should have ever learned my lesson. But at this point it's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong. All these people think I'm never going to be right, because it's more interesting to fabricate this other girl. Who wants to read a tabloid story about a girl who is doing well?

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/lindsay-lohan/

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 10:04am

You know, I genuinely like Lindsay Lohan despite myself, and I'm always hoping she'll get her act together, because I think she's a decent actress, but some of this cracks me up. I've always thought she had a real inability to master the walking condraction that she is, like with a statement like this:

 I was just turning 19. I was driving my Mercedes, my favorite car, which I worked my ass off to buy for myself . . . I had to just give it away because I was like, "It's bad luck now." At the same time, though, I am sort of a speed demon. It's exhilarating.

Uh, Linds, if you're high and driving like a banshee, that ain't bad luck; that's sheer stupidity.

And then invoking Heath Ledger for life advice? Eeesh.

And is Lauren Hutton still crazy? Comments like this - "By her 20th birthday, she had arrived. And then she stopped for a minute to be a kid-to act stupid, get drunk, and play the fool." - make me wonder. And her chronology is all out of whack, but whatever.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:47pm

I think LL is a decent actor, too, and that's why I ran out of patience a long time ago.

Why don't you put on some panties, get out of the limo, and go DO something?

She seems to have slowed down on her determination to crash-and-burn, but she hasn't replaced it with doing any work anybody cares about.

And the problem is NOT that Hitchcock isn't working anymore.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:34pm

lilo, don't listen to them. no one wants you to put on undies. they're just jealous that their hoohas are not as universally admired as yours. i'd still lick it like a lollipop. just like i did to the screen when i saw it. oh gawd yessssss. i can still taste the dust from the monitor. it tasted like...dust. mmmmmmmmm.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:39pm

"their hoohas are not as universally admired as yours"

I ain't had no complaints.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:39pm

It ain't just Hitchcock. No****works for her anymore.

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:53pm

"She's got the bones of a flamingo"

What does that even mean? I think I learned more about Ms Hutton from this piece than I did about Ms. Lohan.