Lindsay Lohan Competing With Megan Fox For Elizabeth Taylor Role
January 17, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Lindsay Lohan recently confirmed she’s still under consideration for the Lifetime movie role of Elizabeth Taylor. It’s a pretty budget move, ignoring the character for a moment. It’s not a blockbuster, it’s not big-budget, it’s not a long shoot. It’s last resort, and it’s basic. It’s Lifetime. But Lohan is so excited to get anything. Literally. That’s how far her crack-hustle has fallen. She’s got few moves left, except for staying out of jail (speaking of which, she’s in court today for a progress hearing and TMZ.com reports that she’s reverted to leaving the bare minimum until the last minute).
In all fairness, when the news broke, Deadline.com was perfectly clear that Lohan hadn’t signed anything yet. She’s just in talks.
That didn’t stop TMZ’s story this morning, leaked by the 25-year-old’s pimp momager, that Lohan would rush through her probation ASAP so she’d be available to shoot. Maybe that’s a crack move, leaking her availability to TMZ so producers would know Lohan can expedite probation in order to be ready in time.
“I’ve been talking to Lindsay Lohan directly, and with her reps, and have been in conversations with other actresses, including Megan Fox,” Larry Thompson, the executive producer of Lifetime’s Liz and Dick, told E! News exclusively.
Thompson declined to elaborate further on specifics of the negotiations, but added that being in talks with more than one actress is not meant as an affront to the talent involved, but rather is simply de rigueur for projects of this nature.
“It’s a very serious selection,” Thompson continued. “It’s like casting for Hollywood royalty.”
And speaking of serious, a source tells E! News that while Lohan is still one of the frontrunners for the role, her probation status is “a complication.” Lohan, who is on probation until the end of March, is due back in court Tuesday morning to face the judge in a probation status update hearing.
So, when will we know which star nabbed the role?
Rather soon, since the filmmaker plans to start shooting the movie in Canada as soon as this Spring. – via E! Online.
They’re both horrible choices, honestly. Lohan’s a crack-mess who keeps being fired and demoted and Megan Fox is barely back on people’s radars after being fired from Transformers 3, at the behest of Steven Speilberg.
Hopefully, these are just the two names to leak and there are better ones on the table.