Lindsay Lohan set to appear in unnamed Netflix Christmas film

After shunning her acting career for a number of years, Lindsay Lohan has been cast as the starring role in an upcoming Netflix film.

Mean Girls fans rejoice, Lindsay Lohan is back for all your Christmas rom com needs.

The former Masked Singer judge, 34, who has withdrawn from her acting career over the past few years, is set to appear in an upcoming Netflix film.

The streaming service confirmed on Monday that Lohan has been cast as a lead in an untitled holiday romantic comedy, and by the sounds of it, it’s right up her alley.

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Lindsay Lohan is set to make her big return to acting. Picture: Getty Images.

Lohan will play a ‘spoiled hotel heiress’

The plot follows a newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress (Lohan) who suffers amnesia after a skiing accident and finds herself in the care of a handsome lodge owner and his daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.

Janeen Damian (Hallmark Channel’s A Christmas Waltz) will direct, and it was written by Damian, Michael Damian, Jeff Bonnett and Ron Oliver.

Production company MPCA is behind the film, which also produced Netflix holiday classics such as the A Christmas Prince franchise, Operation Christmas Drop and the forthcoming A Castle for Christmas.

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Production starts in November, so, sadly, it won’t be for 2021 holiday viewing, but hopefully a gift for the following year.

It comes after Lohan told CNN’s New Year’s Eve special hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in 2019 that she wanted to “come back to America and start filming again,” and “taking back the life that I worked so hard for, and sharing it with my family and you guys”.

Lohan as Cady Heron in 2004’s Mean Girls, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Rachel McAdams. Picture: Supplied.

It’s been a long time coming for the star, whose acting career took a nosedive amid her many scandals of the mid-2000s.

Her last acting roles

Lohan’s last major project was fronting the MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club which aired one season in 2018-19.

It was reportedly cancelled for “not being juicy enough,” according to Variety.

While she’s appeared in a sprinkle of TV shows as herself and had some minor acting parts, her last leading role was as Elizabeth Taylor in TV movie Liz & Dick in 2012. Before that, it was Georgia Rule in 2007.

According to multiple sources, the actress lost a number of roles and missed out on casting due to her checkered past, which saw her in and out of rehab and jailed on several occasions. Lohan’s misadventures had made her uninsurable, and her work dried up.

In 2007, Lohan was cast in the film Poor Things, which she ultimately lost. In early January 2007, production on the film I Know Who Killed Me was put on hold when Lohan underwent appendix surgery.

And in 2014, she failed to show up to the Venice Film Festival premiere for her film The Canyons.

Lohan in a scene from The Canyons. Picture: AP Photo.

That year, the raunchy film’s director Paul Schrader featured in a piece by The New York Times titled “Here is what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie”.

The article recounted several stories of Lindsay showing up to set late or not at all, having meltdowns and tantrums, and pushing back on the director’s advice.

Lohan’s 2007 film Georgia Rule was also released amid rumours of unprofessionalism.

The film, about three generations of women trying to function as a family, gained notoriety before its release due to a scathing warning letter Lohan received from Morgan Creek Productions CEO James G. Robinson.

Felicity Huffman, Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan in 2007 film Georgia Rule. Picture: Supplied.

The letter detailed Lohan’s “discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional” conduct, calling her behaviour that of a “spoiled child” which “has endangered the quality of this picture”.

Speaking about the infamous letter at the film’s premiere, Jane Fonda, who starred as Lohan’s grandmother, toldAccess Online: “Too much was made of it by the press. Everything was pretty good. We were on time, on budget, and it’s a really good movie.”

She went on: “When (Lindsay) was there, she was fully there. She knew her lines and was emotionally, totally present. She draws on her emotions like no actress I’ve ever seen.”

Lindsay’s troubled past

The actress’ long struggle with drugs and alcohol has sent her to five rehab facilities for a total of 250 days since January 2007.

She’s appeared in court 20 times before four judges who have found her in violation of her probation four times and sentenced her to six months in jail.

Most of her troubles started in 2007, the year she was arrested for drink-driving and fitted with an alcohol monitoring bracelet. She was subsequently arrested a second time for cocaine possession, and entered rehab three times that year.

Lohan and her lawyer during court proceedings in 2010. Picture: AP

The following three years were dotted with missed court hearings, drinking bans and drug testing and several stints in rehab for alcoholism and substance abuse. In 2011, she was arrested for shoplifting a necklace valued at $US2500 and jailed for 120 days.

During home confinement, she failed several drug tests and again, missed a number of court appearances.

By March 2012, the actress appeared to be on the right track, with three straight months of positive reports. The star was ordered to two more years of “informal probation” for the necklace theft.

In 2014, she moved to Dubai, and went on to split her time between London and Greece while running nightclubs in Athens and Mykonos.

Two years later, fans were left baffled when she appeared in an interview with a bizarre new accent that could only be described as a mixture of Greek, American and Russian.

Then, in September 2018, Lohan again garnered controversy when she livestreamed herself attempting to lead away a homeless woman’s children in the early hours of the morning after a night out Moscow.

The Instagram footage, which featured her odd intercontinental accent, saw her accuse the woman of child trafficking, dubbing the family “Syrian refugees”. The situation was regarded by fans as an attempted kidnapping, arising suspicions that Lohan – who appeared to be intoxicated – had fallen off the wagon again.

Iconic Masked Singer Australia appearance

Of course, Aussies will remember the year Lindsay Lohan somewhat randomly featured as a judge on The Masked Singer in 2019, where she pulled out some of her best acting skills to pretend she knew who the TV soap stars beneath the costumes were.

Off set, there were stories aplenty about what she was like to work with.

According to fellow judge Dave “Hughesy” Hughes, Lohan invited the comedian, who has been sober for over 25 years, to party with her in her hotel room one night after filming.

Lindsay Lohan delighted audiences on The Masked Singer. Picture: Channel 10.

Fellow comedian Nazeem Hussain, who joined Hughesy on the night, described the “awkward” situation they found themselves in when she asked them to bring a bottle of wine as neither of them drink.

“So we get up there, it’s Lindsay and her mates, and they’re all Hollywood types, and we’re hanging out, and then Hughesy pours a glass of wine and goes, ‘Here you go, Naz. Here’s a glass of wine,’” recalled Hussain, who doesn’t drink due to his faith.

“And I go, ‘Nah, Hughesy. I’ve had one too many. Maybe you should have one.’ And the glass of wine just kept going back and forth.”

But Hughesy said their worrying had all been for nothing, with Lindsay not even aware of their argument playing out in the background.

After her one season on the show, she unfollowed her co-stars much to their shock.

Hughesy and Jackie O assumed the online snub was because she didn’t want to see them having fun without her last year given she couldn’t be involved because of Covid.