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The release of Mean Girls will be the
third feature film release for Lohan in a
ten-month span. It's been an exhausting year,
but also a very fruitful one. Lohan is now being
approached to play older roles, like the
20-year-old lead character in Disney's upcoming
remake of The Love Bug, titled Herbie.
She says she'd like to avoid playing in too many
high school movies, a trapping that many actors
her age ultimately fall into.
Walking into the room to meet up with Lohan
again, there is a very relaxed atmosphere.
Friends, family and publicists scurry around the
room arranging interviews and making
preparations for the upcoming world premiere.
Lohan looks a little scattered, but is very
friendly and inviting as I sit down and set up
my recorder. She invites her little brother to
sit in on the interview. He looks a little
unsure, finally taking a seat near the corner of
the room.
IGNFF: Do you have a Regina George [the main
mean, popular girl in Mean Girls] in your
own school career?
LINDSAY LOHAN: I didn't really. I did
when, in my first school, I was in one school
until tenth grade, and then I switched high
schools, so I went to another school. There was
kind of a girl that was, like, a Regina George.
She was a nice girl. I got along with her. She
was definitely a Regina George-type. She was
into what she looked like every day. People
think that high school is, like, gotta look
[great] every day. You gotta look hot. I was in
sweats and T-shirts.
IGNFF: How similar is the rest of the Mean
Girls world to your own school experience?
LOHAN: It's different than mine. I
definitely experienced the cafeteria thing. It's
like, people sitting at one table are the jocks
and people and the people that were into math
and that kind of thing. But, that's very
realistic, and, like, the whole three-way
calling. That happened. And fighting over boys,
that happened. Talking behind each other's
backs, that happened. But it didn't go as far as
it went in the movie. Thank God.
IGNFF: Do you have a lot in common with Cady?
LOHAN: Yeah, in some ways. I'm more
outspoken that Cady is. I wouldn't let myself be
thrown into a table of girls I didn't know and
have them be just back and forth talking. I'd be
like, 'Whoa, I can't understand a word you're
saying. Can you start over?' I wouldn't feel
comfortable with them, like, whispering in front
of me, like that makes me feel kind of insecure.
But I can connect with her in the sense that
I've been to a new school before and not really
knowing anyone.
IGNFF: Do you think that high school teens
will "get" the message of Mean Girls?
LOHAN: Oh, yeah. I think they'll get it.
I think the message that's trying to be sent is
basically, don't change who you are to be
accepted by other people, just so that other
people will like you. Because, then you're never
going to be yourself and you're not you're not
going to be satisfied. So, I think people will
see that. The character, Cady, that I play, she
kind of goes through this huge transformation
where she loses herself and becomes kind of a
mean girl and [she's] nasty to other people. Her
true friends and family are, like, "This is not
who you are. Why are you acting like this?' So,
I think people will see that.
IGNFF: This is your second time
working with Mark Waters. How have
things changed the second time around?
Is there more of a repertoire between
you?
LOHAN: Yeah. We kind of just know
what each other's thinking. It's like,
it's a good feeling, because if there's
anything I need to talk to him about,
he's always there and it's really easy
to talk to him. He's a really cool guy.
Being able to work with someone that you
got along with so well is such a
benefit.
IGNFF: You did video rehearsals with Jamie
Lee to prep for Freaky Friday. Was there
a different approach for this one?
LOHAN: It's different, because we're all
young girls. I didn't really have to be someone
else. My character kind of changed, she was mean
and nice, but that happens to people, so it
wasn't like I had to be a completely different
person in this. The girls and I just had fun
with it and just played with it.
IGNFF: Working with people like Tina Fey and
Tim Meadows, was there a lot of improv?
LOHAN: Sometimes we did. Just because of
the Saturday Night Live cast and
everyone, we did improv sometimes.
IGNFF: Was it harder to play the outcast or
the queen bee?
LOHAN: The outcast. If you're watching
the movie, Cady doesn't really speak much. A lot
of it is voiceover and a lot of it is just kind
of looks and what you hear in the voiceover and
what everyone else is saying around her. So it
was hard for me to not be able to really talk
and talk back in the movie. It's weird to not be
able to do that.
IGNFF: Do you think the Regina George-type
winds up regretful or do they just coast through
their lives unaware?
LOHAN: I don't know. That's a really good
question. She'd probably be a completely
different person after high school. I'd assume.
Like, nothing like that. Because people that
care that much in high school probably would get
sick of it later on in life...
IGNFF: Did you read Queen Bees and
Wannabes?
LOHAN: I did.
IGNFF: They list off the various members of
the queen bee's hierarchy. Which category do you
fit into?
LOHAN: The floater. I'm the floater. You
know why, because I was kind of a jock. I played
basketball and soccer and stuff. And, at the
same time, I did cheerleading for a little bit.
And then I also went to after school for art
sometimes. I was, like, going after school for
other things. It was better that way. It was
easier for me. I didn't have to get into drama.
IGNFF: Were you tutored on the side while you
were working on movies?
LOHAN: I was in school until the middle
of 11th grade and then I started getting home
schooled. It was just the end.
IGNFF: The opposite of Cady then?
LOHAN: [Laughs] Exactly.
IGNFF: Did you contribute any of your own
scenes or dialogue?
LOHAN: Dialogue was definitely
contributed to the movie. I would talk to Tina
about it and we would come up with new ideas.
It's great having a writer on the set,
especially one that works on SNL where
they are just coming up with everything really
fast. Because she would just change it, right
then and there. She'd be like, 'Wait, don't say
that. I'm just gonna rewrite it and here you go.
IGNFF: Was it intimidating working
with the SNL and improv pros?
LOHAN: It wasn't intimidating. It
was fun. Tina was like, 'I've never
worked on a movie before. This is scary
for me.' Like, when she had her first
day of shooting. And I was like, 'No,
no. We're gonna have fun. It will be
awesome!' It was kinda of cool that I
was telling her that. We worked with
each other on that. I was uncomfortable
with some of the comedy that I had to do
and she was just like, 'Just go for it
and have fun.'
IGNFF: And now you're reversing roles,
getting set to host Saturday Night Live?
LOHAN: Yeah. I'm excited. It rehearses
the week of, so I go to New York on Wednesday
and then that Sunday I'm going to start
rehearsing.
IGNFF: Have you talked to Tina about any
ideas yet?
LOHAN: They don't come up with anything
until the week of. I know nothing and I'm
scared. I've gone to a couple of shows and seen
it. It's crazy. It's a whirlwind week.
IGNFF: You had the single "Ultimate" on the
Freaky Friday soundtrack. Are you still
working on an album?
LOHAN: I'm working with Diane Warren
right now and I've been talking to Randy Jackson
and doing demos and stuff. I think they're
taking one of my songs for maybe a movie that
I'm not in. That would be cool. I just did it
for fun, the song with Diane and she gave it to
someone.
IGNFF: This has been a pretty crazy year with
three movies in ten months. Are you going to
take a break?
LOHAN: I'm tired.
IGNFF: Are you shooting now?
LOHAN: No. Just press and stuff. I'm
talking to Disney about a remake of Love Bug,
so that might be going in July. We'll see.
IGNFF: Have you started Dramarama or
Gossip Girls?
LOHAN: No, they're working on them right
now so we're waiting to see what happens with
it. The script hasn't even been written for
Gossip Girls. I don't even know what
Gossip Girls is going to be like, because
the books are kind of like a young Sex and
the City. It's based on girls that are,
like, in these upper class girls in the city,
that are just dealing with stuff. It's much more
intense than [Mean Girls]. It's like
Sex and the City. It's, like, really edgy,
where as this is edgy to an extent, but smart.
That's really edgy and stuff. We'll see. I don't
know. And Dramarama [is] very similar to
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and
I don't want to do too many high school movies,
because in Love Bug I play a
twenty-year-old, so I'm kind of getting a little
bit older now in the movies, so that I can kind
of grow up with my fans. So, we'll see what
happens. I don't know.
IGNFF: Some people are comparing Mean
Girls to Heathers.
LOHAN: I saw that movie. I actually
watched it when I was doing Mean Girls.
It's very similar to Mean Girls, it
really is. But there's not deaths in Mean
Girls.
IGNFF: Was there anything darker in Mean
Girls that had to be cut down?
LOHAN: There was more swearing, but they
wanted to keep it PG-13, so they cut a lot of it
out.
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