Lindsay Lohan kicked off the rollout of her new romantic comedy, “Falling for Christmas,” with a playful hit of Yuletide nostalgia.
Final week, Lohan unveiled a brand new rendition of “Jingle Bell Rock,” the identical track she carried out with co-stars Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried in 2004’s “Imply Ladies.” Although “Jingle Bell Rock” is utilized in a essential “Falling for Christmas” scene and performs over the top credit, the actor and singer mentioned the 2022 model started as “a joke that I made in a dialog,” and wasn’t a part of the movie’s authentic script.
“I used to be like, ‘Wouldn’t this be a good suggestion?’ It was a kind of moments the place it comes again and kicks you within the ass, and also you’re like, ‘Oh my God, now I've to do it,’” Lohan advised HuffPost. “It was initially going to be us all within the blooper reel, me and the forged doing a ‘Imply Ladies’ dance collectively. I felt that was taking it too far, and all of us agreed in the long run.”
The brand new “Jingle Bell Rock” could also be a playful wink at Lohan’s previous, however lately, she’s seeking to the longer term with optimism and a renewed sense of creative goal. “Falling for Christmas,” which hit Netflix on Thursday, marks her first starring position in a significant film in practically a decade. She performs Sierra Belmont, a spoiled lodge heiress who's stricken with amnesia throughout an ill-fated snowboarding journey along with her fiancé, Tad (George Younger).
Simply days earlier than Christmas, the memory-impaired Sierra is taken in by a good-looking ski lodge proprietor, Jake Russell (Chord Overstreet), and his younger daughter, Avy (Olivia Perez). Naturally, Sierra and Jake make an odd couple ―she’s used to four-star meals and luxurious room service, whereas he’s carved out a residing by way of extra down-home hospitality. In true rom-com style, hilarity and romance ensue.
Directed by Janeen Damian, “Falling for Christmas” borrows closely from 1987’s “Overboard,” starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and its allusions to holiday-centric romantic comedies like 1998’s “You’ve Received Mail” and 2003’s “Love Truly” are little doubt deliberate. What makes the movie so watchable is Lohan’s indelible display presence, in addition to her palpable chemistry with Overstreet.
“I like the character, I like the romance, I like a very good rom-com,” Lohan mentioned, when requested why she selected “Falling for Christmas” as her performing comeback. “This script had all of that in it. I like the arc that [Sierra] has — seeing any individual that has all the things stripped away from them, and the way that modifications them as an individual and brings out such a real facet.”
Overstreet, greatest identified for enjoying Sam Adams on “Glee,” mentioned he and Lohan established a pure rapport early on by way of their shared humorousness.
“We each are fairly goofy, I’d say,” he defined. “She loves a very good joke, loves a very good gag.”
Each Lohan and Overstreet had excessive reward for Perez, whose credit embrace the 2021 film musical “Within the Heights,” amongst different movies. “She was simply the sweetest — actually proficient, good, humorous, very mature and professional,” Overstreet mentioned. “She got here in and confirmed up and at all times crushed it.”
Lohan, in the meantime, mentioned working with Perez felt like a throwback to her personal days as a toddler actor. “At this age, I’ve by no means labored with a child who was my age once I was in ‘The Father or mother Entice,’” she mentioned. “So it was actually nostalgic for me to see a younger woman who was so proficient and so centered. I simply needed to hug her on a regular basis.”
“Falling for Christmas” is the primary film in Lohan’s three-picture take care of Netflix, and followers and media retailers have already described the vacation flick as the beginning of an expert “renaissance.” She lately accomplished work on “Irish Want,” a comedy co-starring Jane Seymour and due out subsequent yr.
Lohan is honored by the reward, regardless that she’s referred to as such accolades “overwhelming.” No matter how “Falling for Christmas” fares, she sees the film as a significant step up for her in Hollywood. Apart from starring within the movie, she’s additionally one in every of its government producers.
“I like having a bit extra management of the method, which is why I needed to be an government producer on this — simply being a bit extra hands-on with the film because it’s going, and the completed product,” she mentioned. “It’s encouraging me to do extra, do nice movies and provides folks what they deserve.”
“Falling for Christmas” is now streaming on Netflix. Watch the trailer beneath.
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