Lindsay Lohan drops some brutal truth about making Netflix films

Lindsay Lohan seemed done. After a great start to her career, she had some personal struggles, and jobs weren't as easy to find. Then Netflix helped rescue her career.

She isn't a bad actress, and she has a likability that transcends the screen. She can be cute, intelligent, and confusing all at the same time. She has talent, but it might have its limits. Still, she has turned several Netflix films into fluffy things into highly entertaining ones.

Irish Wish, for instance, has no business being as good as it is. The idea of the plot seems worn out. A young woman finds that the love of her life is in love with someone else, but she gets asked to be a bridesmaid anyway. She falls asleep and wakes up as the bride-to-be. Silly, but Lohan makes it work.

Lindsay Lohan might be done making Netflix films

The actress seems to be done with making movies with your favorite streamer, though. Or at least her drive to want to work with Netflix appears to be done. She implied as much in a recent interview with Elle. She wasn't unhappy with the streaming service, but she didn't want to get pigeon-holed as only a Netflix actress.

Lohan told the magazine, "I always want to make movies...that make people happy and bring people together. I love making movies for that reason — for people to escape and find something that they can take into their own life and realize everything’s going to be okay. But with Netflix, I was like, ‘Okay, now we need to be thinking about other stuff.’ I can’t do movies like these forever."

That's fair, right? Maybe Netflix helped resurrect Lohan's struggling career, but she isn't an employee of the streamer. She also wasn't disrespectful to Netflix. No actor wants to be hemmed in by doing only one thing. Soap opera actors might be terrific at what they do, but eventually the soap defines their career, and the actor is forgotten soon after they stop playing the role.

The good thing for Lohan is that she might have another theatrical hit soon. The 2003 edition of Freaky Friday, starring Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, was a box office sensation, and deservedly so. On August 8, the sequel, Freakier Friday, will be released. The movie might not win awards, but it is likely to entertain.

Lohan could also be seen on another streaming service soon. She is set to star in and executive produce the Hulu series, Count My Lies. The project has not yet been greenlit, though.

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