Lindsay Lohan Takes Us Inside Her Beach Club
“People have always given me trouble for going to clubs,” Lindsay Lohan announces in the new trailer..
“People have always given me trouble for going to clubs,” Lindsay Lohan announces in the new trailer for her MTV reality show Lindsay Lohans Beach Club. “So [I thought] why dont I just open my own?”
And so goes Lohans latest attempt to reclaim her professional narrative. In the promo, Lohan paints herself as a savvy entrepreneur who has contorted the publics idea of her into a savvy business endeavor she wants to Kris Jenner into pop-culture omnipresence . Can she do it? Audiences can tune in on January 8, when the show premieres, to find out.
Until then, all we have to go on is this trailer—which plays most Lohan-related footage in perfume ad–style slow-motion. Lohan reclines seductively in a wicker chair situated oceanside. She disembarks from a boat onto the beach, after a costume change. She teases, “If you want to work for me, you have to be the best of the best.” But the message is undercut by a buxom Baywatch-esque babe—is she a club employee? a bartender? a scantily-clad health-department inspector?—shaking her hair out for the camera. She says she wants to build an empire, but that mission statement is scrambled by shots of her club . . . nearly empty. There are no teases about characters within the show. No cutaways to stressful staff or customer-service interactions. No spilled drinks. Aside from shedding light on Lohans expansive collection of sunglasses, the trailer ensures that Lindsay Lohans Beach Club remains a mystery.
The trailer dropped the same day as a new profile of Lohan, via Paper magazine. Lohan was more game for the whimsical portraits—depicting Lindsay as an assortment of pastel-clad Disney princesses—than a candid conversation about her recent tabloid tumults. “I would love to know why I get constantly clobbered in the press,” Lohan wondered, declining to comment on specific episodes. “I could do 99 things right and one thing wrong, but its that one thing that will be focused on. Behind the scenes I do what I can to be the best version of me, which never gets mentioned. I am also human. I make mistakes.”
Self-reflecting is not something that Lohan seems to like to do with press or the public. But she assured Paper that she has matured, so much so, that, at age 32, she plays more of the assuring parent in Lindsay Lohans Beach Club than immature child.
“To kind of have to calm other people down when theyre stressed out, which was me in the past—I think back like, Oh my God, did I act like that? Ten years ago?” Lohan said about her new role. Referring to her employees, she added, “I want to make sure these kids are responsible for themselves.”
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