Hiring Lindsay Lohan is clearly a high-risk, high-reward endeavour. Following the casting of Lindsay Lohan in the TV movie about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s storied love affair, the actress was back to making headlines — first when the striking official production images were released and then after the actress was involved in a car crash that left her Porsche totalled. The last month made the risk abundantly clear, but which way will it break for Lifetime? That remains to be seen, but she’s got the ‘Liz and Dick’ producers spooked. Having hired Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor, the network received more publicity than they could’ve dreamed but not always for the reasons they’d like. Understandably, higher-ups are upset and worried over her car accident and the recent episode in which she passed out so hard people had to call 911. Three weeks into filming, producers are fearing the following: That the company who insured Lindsay Lohan might bail, that her probation will be violated for lying to police, that she will get into yet another bad car accident, that she’ll surround herself with the wrong people, that her exhaustion was a warning sign. On the flip side, if the worst case scenario doesn’t happen think about all the PR she’s getting! Has anyone ever talked this much about a Lifetime film? Lohan could blow the network’s previous projects out of the water, if she doesn’t completely self-destruct. The million-dollar question: Can she keep it together?!
The producer say they were not totally sure of Lohan’s level of commitment but that she had lived up to expectations. “There’s a curiosity factor about Lohan and a high expectation of the movie by the audience in general,” he said.