Lindsay Lohan is including yet one more movie to her checklist of upcoming initiatives.
Lohan, 37, has acquired Ann-Margret’s blessing to play her in a biopic, a supply solely reveals within the newest concern of Us Weekly, noting that the duo will likely be spending time collectively in preparation for the upcoming movie.
Lohan first revealed that she was focused on portraying the Swedish actress, 83, in April, telling Bustle she was trying to find the “proper author” for the film. “She’s a triple risk, and he or she’s a tremendous lady on prime of that,” she defined to the outlet. “So I simply actually need to do her justice and assist inform an ideal story for her.”
Lohan, the insider tells Us, “feels she’s the one one who can play the half” of the long-lasting redhead. The supply provides that the Imply Women star “desires to win an Oscar and an Emmy” as she continues her Lohanissance resurgence and hopes the biopic can “take her profession to the following stage.”
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After years out of the highlight, Lohan has made a serious appearing comeback lately with movies like Falling for Christmas and Irish Want, that are a part of her inventive partnership with Netflix. Her third film for the streaming service, Our Little Secret, is due later this 12 months and follows two resentful exes who’re pressured to spend Christmas underneath the identical roof after discovering that their present companions are siblings.
Lindsay Lohan, Ann Margret Olivia Wong;Silver Display Assortment/Getty Photographs(2)
Lohan additionally made a cameo within the 2024 film musical adaptation of Imply Women. The sequel to her 2003 hit Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis, in the meantime, has acquired a inexperienced gentle, with a second supply telling Us that manufacturing on the movie is ready to start out in a few weeks in L.A. The insider notes that Lohan “and the followers are so excited are the second installment.”
After years of rumors round a follow-up movie, Lohan confirmed throughout a March look on Sirius XM’s Radio Andy that the much-anticipated sequel was occurring however performed coy about sharing any particulars. “I don’t need to say an excessive amount of,” she teased. “However we’re each excited. I’m going to talk for Jamie.”
Later that month, Selection reported that Nisha Ganatra — recognized for her work on comedies like The Excessive Notice and Late Evening — would take the reins from OG director Mark Waters, with Jordan Weiss writing the script. A casting name shared by Ganatra later revealed some plot particulars, with Lohan’s Anna as a mother to her personal snarky 14-year-old daughter, Harper.
“Harper is in a little bit of a temper lately as a result of her longtime single mother is ready to marry British restaurateur Eric Davies,” the outline learn. “If that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, Eric comes together with his personal 14-year-old daughter, sharp-tongued Lily. Harper and Lily don’t see eye to eye. Harper wish to see issues go her method and use her intelligence to cease this marriage from ever occurring.”
Meaning Freaky Friday 2 will see Anna and her mother, Tess (Curtis), swap our bodies — however not with one another. As a substitute, they are going to each swap locations with teenage ladies Harper and Lily. “Harper ought to channel ‘Anna’ (Lindsay Lohan) and Lily ought to channel ‘Tess’ (Jamie Lee Curtis),” the audition slides learn, per Leisure Weekly.
Irish Want, Lindsay Lohan as Maddie Kelly. Patrick Redmond/Netflix
Along with her rising work schedule, Lohan is flourishing as she balances new motherhood after welcoming son Luai with husband Bader Shammas in July 2023. And though Lohan hopes to develop her brood in “the following 12 months or two,” appearing stays a precedence.
“Lindsay’s in the perfect place of her life and profession,” a 3rd insider instructed Us in March. “She’s by no means been more healthy bodily and mentally.”
Lindsay Lohan isn’t any stranger to the highlight. After modeling as a baby, Lohan starred as twins Annie James and Hallie Parker in 1998’s The Mother or father Entice alongside Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson. Following the film’s success, she scored a three-film contract with Disney. “I used to be 10 once I did Mother or father Entice,” Lohan recalled to […]
As for a way her husband feels about her diving again into her profession, Lohan instructed Bustle that Shammas is her greatest cheerleader.
“He’ll help me as a result of I’m in it. You recognize what I imply?” she instructed the outlet in April. “He’s very intuitive and has an excellent understanding of how issues are going to work out in the long run. He can form of foresee issues. So I like getting his recommendation on all the pieces and having him be part of it. I simply really feel safer.”
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