Lindsay Lohan is the cover feature for the February 2009 edition of Interview Magazine. The feature includes a sultry & sexy photoshoot with the glamorous Lindsay Lohan as well as an interview!
In the very candid interview, Lindsay Lohan talks about what it’s like to live in the “fish bowl” that is Hollywood. Lindsay mentions how she’d like to give back, to do things that make her feel fulfilled, but hates that people assume it’s a press stunt. She’s annoyed not to have time to herself:
“There are things I want to do, and people don’t understand that. You know, my car accident that I got into, where I got my first charge, I wouldn’t have been speeding up like I was if I didn’t have people shoving cameras in my windows.”
Lindsay blames her accident on the paparazzi. She says that the paparazzi are always “instigating and antagonizing you” in order to get pictures that will pay off.
Lindsay then goes on about how she got into her career and the misplaced assumptions that she wanted to be a “celebrity”, ending up turning her into a caricature of herself.
“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?”
What did Lindsay want to be?
“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”
Lindsay goes on to talk about the “great ones” in film, and the lack of those being made in Hollywood these days. She then talks about Marilyn Monroe and the respect she got for her daring re-interpration of the Marilyn Monroe photoshoot.
Lindsay mentions that she just got a new script from Charles Shyer, who co-wrote her first film, The Parent Trap. Despite this good news, Lindsay seems worried that the misconception of herself by people – in the industry, the media and fans – is hurting her ability to pursue acting.
“But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don’t get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to last forever.”
Lindsay talks about her life more candidly. Read the rest of the interview here. Or pick up a copy of Interview magazine on January 20th.
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