LA: After jail and countless court appearances, Lindsay Lohan's movie career finally appears to have been resuscitated.Having recently wrapped filming on Liz & Dick, the 25-year-old star has gone straight on to her next job, shooting the sexual thriller The Canyons.
Even though filming is only just getting started, director Paul Schrader is already taking an interactive approach - sharing behind the scene photos of Facebook, including this one of Lohan in bed with porn star James Deen, the male lead in the film.
According to the Daily Mail report, Lindsay as apparently agreed to appear fully nude in the movie, which has been written by controversial American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis.The film is described as a LA noir, and will explore the seedy underbelly of LA life not seen in glossy shows such as MTV reality show The Hills.
It appears Lohan and Deen are finding the necessary chemistry, with the porn star sharing details of his rehearsals with the Mean Girls star on his blog.
Writing about his last rehearsal with the actress earlier this week, Deen recalled: 'My favourite part of the day was sitting with Lindsay Lohan (who is amazing) and our director Paul Schrader (who is also amazing) and planning out how we would shoot our love scenes in the movie.'
Deen, the porn industry's Male Performer of the Year has featured in over 4000 X-rated films.
But The Canyons will be his first mainstream movie - and Deen has spoken candidly about his different approach to love scenes for the film.
'Doing porn is easy,' he shared, adding: '[But] the sex scenes in the movie are obviously not particularly sexual scenes. 'They are plot driven story intensive scenes. The point of all this is that the three of us talked about how each shot was going to go and the choreography of each scene. We talked for a long time about it and even used props.'
In another interesting Facebook post on the official page for the film, Schrader has revealed detailed behind the scenes information about the casting process - and negotiations with Lohan.
He said he was initially considering giving her a cameo role - but was persuaded by her at a meeting at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to give her a go at the lead role.
Schrader openly admits his fears in signing up the actress, based on her 'track history' - and told her he would only consider her if she 'agreed to the 'micro budget salary, did a screen test and completed Liz and Dick on schedule'.
The director also described how his first choice for the role of Tara was model Monica Gambee, not Lohan.
However Gambee 'balked at doing the [screen] test' after hearing porn star Deen was being consider as the male lead at the time.Schrader wrote: 'It then became one thing one thing after another, and finally, she [Gambee] never came in for the screen test. I had planned that weekend to cast her both her and Sean Brosnan as the leads, but that plan unravelled.'
Even though Lohan 'came late to the casting of Tara' - she managed to impress with her screen test.Schrader added: 'Everything that has made her such an interesting screen presence came alive in that test. I decided to use her.'
