Lindsay Lohan has shared her frustration at being typecast in comedies, arguing she is capable of working with prestige drama directors such as Martin Scorsese.
The actor, currently promoting her new film Freakier Friday, broke through in family and teen oriented comedies in the 2000s such as The Parent Trap, Mean Girls, and the original Freaky Friday. She has made appearances in dramas, such as 2006 political biopic Bobby and Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion alongside Meryl Streep.
Speaking to The Times, she confessed she did think she has been pigeonholed in her career. “I was so thrilled to work on A Prairie Home Companion 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”.
When asked what sort of films she would like to make, she replied: “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 has been enjoying a period of success in her career, having starred in the Netflix Christmas movie Our Little Secret, which was revealed in the top five most watched movies on the streamer last year.
Freakier Friday, which is out this week (August 8), reunites Lohan with her original co-star, Jamie Lee Curtis, with the two revealing they recorded new music for the film, bringing back the fictional band Pink Slip.
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