Lindsay Lohan, best known for her roles in Mean Girls and 1998’s The Parent Trap, opened up about how her time growing up in Hollywood led her to feel pigeonholed into certain types of roles in lieu of more highbrow fare.
Speaking to The Times U.K. about Freakier Friday, which releases Aug. 8 theatrically, the actress said she took a brief career hiatus during the 2000s as she was “losing that feeling of excitement about doing a film” and wanted to focus on her personal life.
Now, though, with the followup to 2003 body-swap comedy also starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lohan said she is looking forward to a more diverse range of projects.
“Yeah, I do [think I was pigeonholed],” she said. “I was so thrilled to work on [2006’s] A Prairie Home Companion [opposite Meryl Streep and Woody Harrelson], and yet even today I have to fight for stuff that is like that, which is frustrating. Because, well, you know me as this — but you also know I can do that. So let me! Give me the chance. I have to break that cycle and open doors to something else, leaving people no choice. And in due time, if Martin Scorsese reaches out, I’m not going to say no.”
Outside of Freakier Friday, Lohan is set to headline and executive produce Count My Lies, a Hulu thriller about a conniving nanny who infiltrates a home full of secrets, from former This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.
“I miss films that are stories, like All About Eve or Breakfast at Tiffany’s. There are not many major movies I want to go and see that are like that — there’s a gap and I’m craving to do work like that,” Lohan said of her desire to take on the series.
Earlier this year, Lohan expressed similar sentiments about wanting to expand on the roles she was embodying on screen, saying she doesn’t want to make Netflix rom-coms “forever” after leading three such movies for the streamer.
Elsewhere in her interview with The Times, Lohan reflected on the tabloid-led scrutiny of her at the height of her nascent fame in the early aughts: “I don’t ever want my family to experience being chased by the paparazzi the way I was. They were terrifying moments I had in my life — I have PTSD to the extreme from those things. The most invasive situations. Really scary. And I pray stuff like that never comes back. It’s not safe. It’s not fair.”
