In an interview on “Good Morning America” July 28, Jamie Lee Curtis — who has made many a-headline herself recently — said she has made it her mission to get Lindsay Lohan cast as Ann-Margret in a biopic of the legendary star.
“I’m going to out you now to the world — I want her to do the Ann-Margret story,” Curtis said. “So, every day on Instagram… I find videos of her back in the day, and I send [Lohan] every day videos [of Ann-Margret].” And Lohan added that she used to watch Ann-Margret’s movies with her grandmother.
In an interview with IndieWire, Ann-Margret said that she co-signs Lohan as her portrayer.
“I know that she wants to do that,” she said. “It just depends on what the dialogue is like. What can I say? I adore her. I think she’s full of talent, and I just would like to see what they can come up with.”
When asked if there is a period of her life Ann-Margret believes would be best to depict on film, the “Carnal Knowledge” star said she wasn’t sure — though there is plenty of gold to mine from, including a dramatic 1972 fall onstage while performing in Lake Tahoe, her much discussed relationship with Elvis Presley, her rocket to stardom in “Bye Bye Birdie,” and her resurgence as a multi-Oscar-nominated star in the ’70s.
Lohan told Andy Cohen (via People) last year that they were working on the story for the film, adding “It has to be the way that she wants it to be, so I really want it to be special in that way.”
She also told Bustle, “She’s a triple threat, and she’s an amazing woman on top of that. So I just really want to do her justice and help tell a great story for her.” She encouraged people to watch Ann-Margret’s 1964 film “Kitten With a Whip,” describing the plot as about “this girl who breaks out of a mental institution and breaks into this man’s house who’s running for senator, and starts inviting all her friends over and tells him she’s not leaving and basically holds him hostage in his own home.”
Watch out for IndieWire’s full interview with Ann-Margret next week. She will appear at the Cinecon Film Festival in Los Angeles Labor Day weekend, August 29-September 1. Other honorees include Juliet Mills and Mamie Van Doren. You can read our interview with Van Doren, posted today, here.