Hey, do you remember when Lindsay Lohan called Scarlett Johansson a “C-U- Next Tuesday”? And then ScarJo tried to act classy, like who is this mysterious Lohan person?

Well, as it turns out, Lohan has a real problem with Scarlett – like a love/hate thing, admiration mixed with envy mixed with high-school bitchy. Lohan just gave another interview, this time to Interview magazine, talking about how she works “as hard” as ScarJo, but people only focus on her “mess” of a life.
The Interview piece is here but Huffington Post has the highlights.

Interesting sidenote: Just what is Lohan promoting, for the love of God? Other actresses do press because, you know, they have a film coming out. I think Lohan’s just giving an interview with nothing to promote except the idea that she has a screwed up life.

Lindsay Lohan gave an interview to Lauren Hutton in the February issue of Interview, and bemoaned the state of her career and the poor film educations of youth today.

On not getting the same opportunities as other actresses: “But it’s so impossible for me to actually [go someplace where no one knows me]. When I was in Dubai, there was still press lined up around the hotel. So I find it close to impossible to actually do that. I mean, it is what it is. This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that’s what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don’t get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to last forever.

On being in Hollywood to act, not to become a celebrity: “I just feel as though it’s become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there’s no real person inside of it. I mean, people really have come to believe-directors, producers, agents, whoever it may be-that I started in this because I wanted to be a celebrity. But that was never my intention.”

On the public misconception of her and the lack of knowledge about film: “I wanted to be a movie star [growing up]. But movie stars are not what they used to be. When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, ‘This is one of the great ones.’ Like, what is the great film that I will tell my children about? I’m still going to tell them about the old films, the Hitchcock films. And people my age don’t even know who those people are. I can’t even have a conversation with most people of my generation about that, because they’d be like, ‘Okay, she’s a freak. Something’s wrong with her.’

[From The Huffington Post]

I don’t really hate La Lohan – she’s had a really screwed up life, and her family continues to be both ridiculous and frightening. Even though this interview is sort of being billed as the next step of the Lohan-Johansson War, Lohan just sounds like she’s trying to change her image and get some work. I’m not sure whining is the best way to do that, but let’s see. Rumor is that insurance companies don’t want to insure a problem actress with a history of unprofessional and drug-seeking behavior, so Lohan’s lack of work might not even be her image. Very few directors or producers will put their projects on the line with an un-insured actress. Still, I hope Lohan finds something to do – other than hang with Sam and “stay sober”.

Lindsay Lohan is shown shopping alone on 1/6/09 and on the beach in Florida on 12/31/08. Credit: Fame