Revenge of the Mean Girl

As Lindsay Lohan returns to the Disney fold with 'Freakier Friday', Adam White says the star is finally on the verge of receiving the respect and opportunities her talent deserves

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One of my favourite bits of Lindsay Lohan lore stems from a magazine profile in 2011, when the Mean Girls star was in the midst of a professional crisis, haunting hotel suites in Hollywood and Miami and raging indignantly.

On this given day, she was apparently furious about the Oscar-winning Natalie Portman film Black Swan, insisting to those in her immediate vicinity that – as someone trained in ballet since the age of nine - she really should have been considered for a role in it. But the film industry had turned on her and Black Swan was not to be, while Lohan's flexes of power were confined to the small and ridiculous.

"As we pulled up to the Fontainebleau, a bright-orange parking cone was blocking the entrance," wrote journalist Jacquelynn Powers in Plum Miami magazine. "Not accustomed to waiting, apparently, she lowered the car's window and shouted, 'Move that cone I'm Lindsay Lohan!' And it was done."

Lohan didn't typically sit for interviews back then. She had a habit of agreeing to chat with a magazine, pose for the accompanying photos, but then bounce before any tape recorders were pulled out. The finished articles would subsequently become TMZ-era variations on Gay Talese's immortal Esquire feature "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" - gossipy, anecdotal writing about a slippery star who was never quite available for a real conversation, but whose flighty presence would always result in loud, fascinating chaos.

The Lohan of 2025 is a very different beast. As is the media industrial complex she's reentered while promoting her new film, the long-in-the-works sequel