After reaching teen stardom in the 2000s, Lindsay Lohan spent some time away from mainstream Hollywood, making her return with a trio of Netflix romantic comedies: 2022’s Falling For Christmas, 2024’s Irish Wish, and last year’s Our Little Secret. In a new Elle cover story, Lohan says she was “manifesting” her comeback during the pandemic: “I was like, ‘I want to work with Netflix.’ I kept writing it in my journal and saying it. And then that’s what happened. I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be nice to do three films with them, and then see where that goes.’”
But while the 39-year-old actor always wants to front films “that make people happy and bring people together,” she is finally through with Netflix romantic comedies, at least for the moment. “I love making movies for that reason—for people to escape and find something that they can take into their own life and realize everything’s going to be okay,” Lohan tells the publication. “But with Netflix, I was like, ‘Okay, now we need to be thinking about other stuff.’ I can’t do movies like these forever.”
Next up, Lohan stars in Freakier Friday, out August 8, a sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday that reunites her with co-star Jamie Lee Curtis. “There’s not a lot bringing me to the movie theaters personally right now. [Freakier Friday] is a feel-good movie, which is what I want to give people,” says Lohan, who also relished getting to share the experience with her husband, financier Bader Shammas, and son Luai. “I mean, it’s the most important thing—my husband, my son, and me. It’s all about balance and, as I said, routine,” she tells Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman in the Elle interview. “Especially when you have a kid, routine is the most important thing. And whatever their routine is, I’ve got to live by that.”
Now, Lohan says she’s ready to switch-up her day-to-day by welcoming a second child. “Once you have one kid, you’re like, ‘Oh, my kid needs a kid to play with.’ I’m like, ‘He needs a friend’…also, I don’t know if it’s selfish—but I’m like, ‘I need more than one kid to take care of me when I’m older.’”
Speaking of aging, Lohan also reveals that she’s developing her own beauty line and shares some of her own secrets to looking fresh-faced—from drinking lemon juice and using daily eye patches to skincare treatments like Morpheus8 (Lohan only tried it once) and injections: “Everyone does Botox.”
As for the next phase of her career, Lohan is developing a Hulu adaptation of Sophie Stava’s novel Count My Lies, Elle reports, and has some ideas for what might be next. “I would love to find a dark comedy like Mean Girls. That kind of meaty, good, funny movie—a smart comedy. Not a rom-com, just a straightforward funny movie,” she says. “I’d love to work with some dream directors. Maybe Quentin Tarantino. Also, I’d love to work with Julianne Moore—I don’t know why I’ve never played her daughter. Maybe now I’d be her younger sister. I’d also love to work with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Maybe something Sopranos-y, since I am Italian.”
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