Lindsay Lohan Is Returning To Our Screens With Ron Weasley And A Sleek New Bob
Is this Lindsay Lohan's big comeback?
If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for that sweet moment — always hovering on the horizon — when the freckled face, chainsmoker’s voice and impeccable comedic timing of Lindsay Lohan would return to our screens.
The former child star, who wowed audiences as a set of British/American twins in Disney’s The Parent Trap re-make, and helmed possibly the greatest teen girl comedy of all time, Mean Girls, has been off the radar after a series of drug offences, rumours about poor behaviour on-set, and weird tweets about Brexit made her virtually unemployable.
Now she’s back, joining the second season of upcoming British comedy Sick Note. Lohan announced the news via her Instagram this morning.
The TV series, which is part of a push from Murdoch-owned Sky to enter the scripted comedy/drama market, will premiere its first season this year, and has already been confirmed for a second season.
This is where Lohan (pictured above with co-stars Rupert Grint and Nick Frost) comes in. It was announced today by Sky that Lohan will join the series just-commissioned second season. The show follows Daniel Glass (Grint) as he attempts to keep the secret of a terminal illness diagnosis from his friends and family — only, as it turns out, the diagnosis was incorrect. Zany stuff! In the second season, Lohan will play the role of Daniel’s boss’s (Don Johnson) daughter, Katerina West.
I like that Lindsay Lohan has been given the hairstyle of Lynne, a Human Resources manager from Featherstone pic.twitter.com/5hB6Qa4rhM
— shon faye (@shonfaye) June 12, 2017
Not only is Lohan back, red hair and all, she’s also sporting a sleek new bob and looking, I must say, pretty healthy and happy and fine. Which is great, considering the rough trot the former child star has had over the past few years. Maybe this is the chance for her to make a seriously impressive comeback!
If you’re having trouble remembering the last thing Lohan was in, that’s because she’s been off our screens for a while — aside from her jaunt on Oprah’s OWN channel with an interview and a hideously exploitative reality series that was subsequently cancelled.
The last big-ticket thing I remember from Lohan was her starring role alongside porn star James Deen (then porn’s golden boy, now an alleged serial abuser of his co-stars on set) in The Canyons, the filthy campy mess of a film written by Brett Easton-Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader. (The film also produced possibly the greatest piece of longform snark journalism in history, the NYT piece entitled “Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan In Your Movie“).
Other ill-advised projects taken on by the flailing star include Lifetime’s much-derided Liz Taylor biopic Liz and Dick, and my secret-favourite late-noughties rom-com Just My Luck, co-starring the now officially Underrated Hollywood Chris, Chris Pine. That movie is a glorious disaster, a car crash you can’t look away from. So yeah, it mirrored Lohan’s career pretty well too.
I have all my fingers and toes crossed for a triumphant Lohan comeback with Sick Note. At the very least, it’s another excuse for Lohan to show off her British accent, first flaunted in The Parent Trap, which she’s now bizarrely adopted as her own. I suppose we’ll find out when the series second season drops in 2018.