Team Lindsay

We never stopped rooting for Lindsay Lohan.

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WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY, there’s a scene in Freakier Friday, out August 8, where Lindsay Lohan, as her character Anna Coleman, rocks out onstage with her band, Pink Slip. Seeing Lohan nail her guitar solo (yes, that’s actually her singing and playing), in a red lip, her signature-hued hair looking luscious and head-bang-worthy, her skin glowing as much as her sequined minidress, happiness washed over me. “She’s so back,” I thought, and thank God for that. There isn’t much else that feels the same as it did 22 years ago, when Freaky Friday came out, but Lindsay Lohan has returned to the big screen, and it feels really good.

Lohan was just 12 years old when she made her film debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Five years later came Freaky Friday, followed by Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; Mean Girls; Herbie: Fully Loaded; and Just My Luck. But as we know now and should have known then, Hollywood is a tough place for child stars, and the abuse Lohan suffered in the tabloids left few surprised when she took time away from the industry.

In the years that followed, Lohan would pop up in the press every now and then, seemingly living a fabulous, if understandably private, life largely abroad—she went viral dancing at a beach club in Mykonos; she married a finance executive and had a son, and they all made a home together in Dubai.