The Best Time Of Our Lives, a movie about poet Dylan Thomas and his women, was being touted as Lindsay Lohan's leap into big-time serious moviemaking. Plus there was the news that Lohan might have some kind of lesbian sex-scene with co-star Keira Knightley, which made all the pervos happy. But now the pervos and the Lindsay-can-really-act crowd will have to cool their jets for awhile - because Lindsay has decided to drop out of the flick.
According to Life & Style Weekly, Lindsay's decision to dump the project happened because of a stalemate in contract negotiations. Said a source:
[Lindsay and the producers] were unable to come to terms. She didn't back out and they didn't pull the deal. But there were changes that weren't to her liking, and that was that.
Lindsay dropping out of this movie - or being dropped, or whatever happened - is another part of an all-too-familiar trend for the actress. Not long ago, she bailed out on the Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman of No Importance, to be replaced by Jessica Biel, and before that she ceded a role in the indie Bill to Jessica Alba because the director wasn't "a big enough name." What's it all add up to? On the surface, it looks like Lindsay is just too flighty - she takes on these parts, then changes her mind. But I suspect that, behind the scenes, there's something more sinister afoot. You take her latest drop-out - that explanation about her not being able to come to contract terms with the producers. What does that mean exactly? That they didn't offer her enough money? Didn't give in to enough of her bitchy demands? Or, given her recent history of disrupting movie shoots, did the producers expect assurances that Lindsay wasn't able to provide? Did they want something written into the contract that would guarantee Lindsay behaved herself? A no-party clause or something to that effect? Did Lindsay, in fact, drop out of this movie because she realized it would put a damper on her social life? Here's what's obvious to me - Lohan is much less serious about earning money than she is about spending it. She's been threatened with lawsuits by producers on more than one occasion - all because she doesn't know how to behave like a professional - and yet this hasn't seemed to faze her. She doesn't seem to me to care a lick about her career. But the sad truth for her is that, sooner or later, she's going to have to do something - pick a role and follow through on it. Because all those modeling contracts and other opportunities - they depend on her being a working actress. The second she stops being that, she becomes much less desirable to anyone who might want her. And then the money will stop rolling in, and Lindsay will discover - the hard way - that if you want to be a big-time earner, you need to take your work seriously, and stop putting the parties first.
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