What Is LiLo Promoting?
Thursday, January 8th, 2009I thought magazine interviews and the like were held for individuals with upcoming projects or if you popped out some kids for ching. And LiLo…well, as far as I know has neither. But, whatevs. It’s Lindsay Lohan…she does what she wants. For the February issue of “Interview” magazine, LiLo sat down to dish about her life in the limelight and why she is just as cool as ScarJo. Lauren Hutton does the asking…LiLo rattles off some lengthy answers. Below are a few of the highlights of the interview.
On Not Getting The Same Opportunities As Other Actresses:
But it’s so impossible for me to actually [go someplace where no one knows me]. When I was in Dubai, there was still press lined up around the hotel. So I find it close to impossible to actually do that. I mean, it is what it is. This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that’s what actually goes on. 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.
On Being Misunderstood:
You know what’s hard? I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it’s a press stunt or something. Because they do find me, and there’s really no way of hiding from that. And the second that you complain about it, they say, “Well, this is what you wanted, so this is what you’re going to get.” That’s all people see it as now. It’s not, “No, I just want to have some time for myself.” 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.
On Being In Hollywood To Act, Not To Become A Paparazzi Magnet:
I just feel as though it’s become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there’s no real person inside of it. I mean, people really have come to believe-directors, producers, agents, whoever it may be-that I started in this because I wanted to be a celebrity. But that was never my intention.
On The Public Misconception Of Her And The Lack Of Knowledge About Film:
I wanted to be a movie star [growing up]. 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.’
The Advice Heath Ledger Gave Her After They Presumably Doinked:
Heath Ledger once said something about this to me. He said: “It’s build you up to knock you down, and that’s all it is. And you just have to see if you can stand through it.” And it is like that, if you put yourself in this situation. I was young, so maybe I did . . . I always wanted to take the blame. I’ve always been apologetic for other people’s faults.
To get the total scoop you can visit their website or pick up the magazine when it hits newsstands January 20th.



















