'The Canyons' director says Lindsay Lohan threw tantrums on set. Jeebus, we're DUMFOUNDED. Nahht.
Director Paul Schrader doesn't regret casting the troubled actress in his upcoming erotic thriller, despite her erratic behaviour and constant 'tardiness, tantrums, absences, neediness, [and] psychodrama' during filming. But perhaps when he was looking for 'erotic', she mis-read the casting bill as 'erratic', for which she'd be the perfect fit.
The filmmaker - who cast porn star James Deen opposite Lindsay in the film - explained: '[Lindsay] feels she must be experiencing an emotion in order to play it. This leads to all sorts of emotional turmoil, not to mention on-set delays and melodrama.'
However, while the 27-year-old redhead was difficult to work with, Paul believes her charisma and on-screen presence is akin to late Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who was overcome with personal issues and gained a reputation for being unreliable in the years before her death in 1962.
No, just no.
He said: 'I think Lohan has more natural talent than Monroe did, but like Monroe, her weakness is her inability to fake it.
'Monroe and Lohan exist in the space between actors and celebrities. People whose professional and personal performances are more or less indistinguishable ... We call them 'troubled,' 'tormented,' 'train wrecks', but we can't turn away. We can't stop watching. They get under our skin in a way that controlled performers can't.'
