Lindsay Lohan is sneaking a cigarette at a banquette by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, flicking her ashes under the table. It's the worst thing anyone is going to catch the 21-year-old actress doing these days, aside from the previous night's 4 a.m. binge -- on cake, that is, a Duncan Hines Angel Food special she baked and frosted herself.
"I was in the kitchen like a little animal," she admits, curling her lip in mild disgust. "It's so good, I should throw it out."
As we all know, Lohan is a girl who likes her vices, but after a year scarred with yet another car accident (her fourth since 2005), three stays in rehab, and 84 minutes in jail, she seems genuinely ready to mellow out, clean up, and, most importantly, get back to work. Far spookier for her than plowing her Mercedes into a bush on Sunset Boulevard, apparently, is being absent from a movie set since she starred in the universally panned horror flick I Know Who Killed Me, released last summer.
"Right now I just want to find a great script, a great role," says Lohan with palpable urgency in her voice. "I was so used to working and working and working, and for a good few months there was nothing for me to do. Now I know what it’s like to be an out-of-work actor, and how much it scares me."
Fear and safety are recurring themes in conversation with the Long Island native, who recently traded her Beverly Hills apartment for a furnished house in West Hollywood (a move she says signifies "settling down"). We are meeting in the confines of this plush pink hotel, where Lohan lived while she was house hunting, because it makes her feel "very safe, which is nice." When she leaves the grounds, however, she knows the paparazzi will be right on her tail. As do most in the business who are hounded daily by the press, Lohan concedes that it comes with the celebrity territory, but says, "Some days I just want to have my day and not have to deal. This morning I got in the car and I was like, not today. It's a job in itself... and I'm the last person who feels that I need to get photographed." She turns to her assistant Jenni Munro. "I'm gonna go home after this and just lock myself in my house and lay down for a minute."
Lindsay wears a jacket and skirt by Jeremy Scott, shoes by Lanvin, cuff by Karl Lagerfeld and sunglasses by Ray-Ban.
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