Jessica Alba & Lindsay Lohan: Hollywood’s New BFFs? Yeah, Right

This just in: Jessica Alba hearts Lindsay Lohan!

“She’s really nice,” actress No. 1 (Alba) says of actress No. 2 (Lohan), her costar in the upcoming action film Machete, in the new UK issue of Cosmopolitan. “We hang out and chat for hours about girl stuff.”

Never mind those pesky rumors from last December that Lohan was caught going mouth to mouth with Alba’s husband, Cash Warren. Alba, who denies them in the interview, likes Lohan. She really likes her.

Of course!

Every time there are rumors of discord on a movie set — and when actresses work together, isn’t that generally the case? — the players involved insist that everyone gets along really swell.

Last year, when undisclosed sources had Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johannson fueding on the set of Iron Man 2 because of the media attention Johannson was getting for her villainous role as Black Widow, the official word was that the actresses had nothing but love and respect for each other.

Of course!

Just once, wouldn’t you love to hear one of their mouthpieces say, “Well, actually, they can’t stand the sight of each other”?  How great would it have been — for sales of Us Weekly, for the movie’s box-office and for catfight fanatics everywhere — if rumors had placed Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz at each other’s throats, practically pulling out each other’s hair extensions, on the set of Nine (after all, they are both Tom Cruise exes), and the actresses actually agreed? Picture it: “I despise the ground she slithers over,” Cruz says of Kidman. And Kidman could shoot back: “I don’t understand how she keeps getting those Oscar nominations. She’s, like, such a horrible actress!”

Every so often in Hollywood, actors and actresses let loose lips get the best of them — like years ago when Jennifer Lopez slammed Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder in the space of one interview — and usually use that old standby excuse: “My quotes were taken out of context.” But for the most part, in Hollywood, everyone says, “I love you” — whether or not they really mean it.