Lindsay Lohan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q44903: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Parent Trap (1998); Freaky Friday (2003); Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004); Mean Girls (2004); Mean Girls (2024).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mean Girls (2004): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (meta-joke) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (remake) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.
    “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (tone shift) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Heathers (1988): 2 lines

  1. theme (genre DNA) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Mean Girls is described as part Heathers and part after-school special; the ending was pushed away from Heathers toward the relatable.
    “This movie is like part Heathers and part after school special.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:54 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. theme (character descent) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Regina George is framed as the legacy of the original Heather (Kim Walker), the first Heather killed.
    “Regina George. To me is the legacy of the 3 Heathers and Heathers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Clueless (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand.
    “Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls.
    “I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Pretty Woman (1990): 1 line

  1. industry (awards crossover) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes.
    “We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Tina Fey: 1 line

  1. unmapped (authorship) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Tina Fey ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.
    “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mean Girls (2024): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (meta-joke) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (remake) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.
    “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (tone shift) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Knocked Up (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Patricia Clarkson: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Mean Girls (2004), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Patricia Clarkson (the host's read). Clarkson's cool-mom scene is a slight nod to Amy Poehler's cool mom in Mean Girls.
    “This is like a slight nod to mean girls, Amy Poehler, your dance is funny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:13:41 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Lindsay Lohan. Bill's hottest take: Heigl and Lohan are the two lost superstars of the decade.
    “I just think her and Lohan are the 2 lost superstars from this decade.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career projection): Lindsay Lohan → Jodie Foster. After Freaky Friday, Ebert's comparison made it seem Lohan would be the next Jodie Foster, doing teen movies then winning Oscars.
    “So at this point, we're like, this is the next Jody Foster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:09:20 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (soundtrack/dating): Lindsay Lohan → Samantha Ronson. The soundtrack song 'Built This Way' is by Samantha Ronson, whom Lohan later dated, which throws a viewer off.
    “Katie starts dating the person who did the song a year later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:40:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (performance): Lindsay Lohan → The Parent Trap. Lohan is jarringly awesome playing two characters in The Parent Trap, which Simmons' daughter watched for a year.
    “she's like jarringly awesome in that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (uncanny cameo): Lindsay Lohan → Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lohan's Mathletes MC cameo in the new film had a touch of body-snatcher uncanniness.
    “There was a little bit of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:00:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (sports analogy): Lindsay Lohan → Dwight Gooden. Simmons likens 2004 Lohan to 1985 Dwight Gooden, a young phenom who cratered with cocaine.
    “that was like Dwight Gooden in 1985 on the Mets.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (generational comparison): Lindsay Lohan → Elizabeth Taylor. People thought Lohan was this generation's Elizabeth Taylor, then the bad parts happened without the good.
    “that's Elizabeth Taylor for this generation.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:22 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (sad arc): Lindsay Lohan → Chris Farley. Farley is another Lorne Michaels star whose end got sad.
    “Farley's another one like this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:16:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (rare teen star): Lindsay Lohan → Alicia Silverstone. No teen star like Lohan or Silverstone has appeared since; both show how hard young-woman fame is.
    “I feel the same way about Alicia Silverstone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:17:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (same cohort): Lindsay Lohan → Mischa Barton. Barton is in the same paparazzi-era cohort on a similar trajectory, though judged less talented.
    “Misha Barton. She's on a very similar trajectory as Lindsay Lohan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:40:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if career): Lindsay Lohan → River Phoenix. Another talented actor whose career is a what-if; Simmons compares to athletes lost to injury or drugs.
    “River Phoenix, who I think is another one where it's, there's a lot of what ifs that go with him”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:13:54 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting what-if): Lindsay Lohan → Pretty Woman. Asked whether Lohan could have starred in Pretty Woman at 23; they say no, her power was suburban edge, not hard exterior and soft center.
    “Could she have done Pretty Woman if Pretty Woman was 20 years later?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:48:41 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (role swap what-if): Lindsay Lohan → Rachel McAdams. They were originally cast in opposite roles; McAdams would have been too old to be believable as homeschooled Cady.
    “Originally an edition for the opposite roles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:50:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (alternate arc): Lindsay Lohan → Julia Roberts. Roberts married a regular guy and stayed fine; maybe Lohan could have had that path.
    “Just married a regular dude and she was good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Lindsay Lohan: The rewatchables crew remembers an MTV 'Diary' episode filmed right before Mean Girls, plus a hosted SNL with Debbie Downer, and a 2005 return whose monologue was about her problems.
    “By the time she comes back in 05.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:15:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Lindsay Lohan: Lohan has repeatedly pitched and treated a Mean Girls sequel; direct-to-TV Mean Girls 2 aired on ABC Family January 23, 2011.
    “She'd written a treatment for the film.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Lindsay Lohan: Apex Mountain: Lohan's 2004 is the highest peak anyone has reached, unanimous; Tina Fey, McAdams, Seyfried, Chabert and Poehler also considered.
    “It's the highest peak anyone may have ever reached on their apex mountain.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:28 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)