Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox competing for Elizabeth Taylor role
Photo credit: Getty Images | Lindsay Lohan arrives for her probation update hearing at the Airport Courthouse. (Jan. 17, 2012)
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Lindsay Lohan will be competing with Megan Fox to play Elizabeth Taylor in a TV-movie, the film's executive producer said.
"I've been talking to Lindsay Lohan directly, and with her reps, and have been in conversations with other actresses, including Megan Fox," Larry Thompson told E! late Monday night. He emphasized that the wide casting net was not a comment on the actress' talents but on the nature of the role. "It's a very serious selection," he said. "It's like casting for Hollywood royalty."
Fox and Lohan, both 25, co-starred as rivals vying for the same high-school musical role in the 2004 film "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen."
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Thompson plans to start shooting "Liz & Dick" for the Lifetime cable network in Canada this spring. The movie chronicles the tempestuous romance between Taylor and Richard Burton, whom she married twice. Lohan's availability is complicated by her community service for probation violation, a sentence scheduled to end March 29.
At her monthly probation hearing yesterday morning, the "Mean Girls" star received praise and encouragement from the judge in her case, who anticipates the actress will complete her community service and counseling sessions on time.
"I'm pleased to say she's done it all," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said in court, telling Lohan, "Just keep doing what you're doing; you appear to be doing it well."
Lohan arrived early, wearing black slacks, a blue blouse and matching sweater.
"Lindsay is in full compliance with the court's orders and the terms of her probation," Lohan's spokesman, Steve Honig, told Newsday. "She will continue to make the completion of her community service a top priority."
Lohan's next hearing is set for Feb. 22. She will have to work 15 more times at the Los Angeles County morgue by then.
