Lindsay Lohan’s new career goal: getting naked as ‘Deep Throat’ porn star Linda Lovelace. Will it work?
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Just when you thought the life and times of Lindsay Lohan couldn’t possibly get any more interesting, the latest news is that she will be playing Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace in the upcoming biopic Inferno. It would be so easy to go off about how this is the role that Lohan was born to play (D-list washed-up ’70s porn queen), but this is actually a juicy part that more young actresses should have been fighting for.
If done well, Lovelace’s story could be exactly what Lohan needs to revive her career. There’s plenty of drama — a husband Lovelace accused of sadistic cruelty, drug abuse, prostitution, illness, lawsuits, enough about faces to give anyone whiplash (from pro-porn to anti-porn to born again) and, finally, premature death (at age 53, after a car accident). There also will be, presumably, plenty of nudity.
Lohan could possibly do it justice — if she manages to finish the job without getting fired — and not for the obvious reasons. Anyone who has seen Lohan’s performances in Freaky Friday or Mean Girls knows that the girl can act. While I’m not condoning her public displays of drunkenness and various other social offenses, I am willing to give her the benefit of a doubt. When I was her age (23), I was not always a model of excellent behavior (and occasionally, I’m still not).
Yes, she’s made some mistakes — on and off camera — but in Hollywood, there are always second acts. And if Mickey Rourke can pull one off, anyone can (except perhaps, at this point, Tara Reid).
I, for one, love to root for the underdog, and I hope Lohan will pull herself together and use this role to get her career and her life back on track. And how poetic would it be for the woman who has spent the last few years being dismissed as a joke to score an Oscar nomination for portraying a woman who spent her entire career being dismissed as a joke?
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If she gets nude (a lot – no body double) it may be a movie I’d see.
But I suspect she won’t. In her own world she’s still a big-time actress.
Isn’t it strange how big stars are always the last to know that they are sort of over? I don’t see how she could hope to possibly realistically portray the biggest female porn star of the ’70s without disrobing. Far bigger stars than Lindsay have said okay to nudity, so if she knows what’s good for her, she will do what’s necessary for the role.
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