Lindsay Lohan Glams Up Interview Magazine

Lindsay Lohan is featured in the February 2009 issue of  Interview Magazine. The 22-year-old actress talks about her career and her childhood aspirations. “People really have come to believe that I started in this because I wanted to be a celebrity. But that was never my intention. I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”, says LiLo. Interview highlights, sexy black & white photoshoot pics and behind the scenes VIDEO in full story!

On paparazzi: “You know what’s hard? I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it’s a press stunt or something. Because they do find me, and there’s really no way of hiding from that. And the second that you complain about it, they say, “Well, this is what you wanted, so this is what you’re going to get.” That’s all people see it as now. It’s not, “No, I just want to have some time for myself.” There are things I want to do, and people don’t understand that. You know, my car accident that I got into, where I got my first charge, I wouldn’t have been speeding up like I was if I didn’t have people shoving cameras in my windows… Yeah, I was. I was running away from the paparazzi… Especially late at night, when you’re trying to turn a corner, and then somebody else is speeding up alongside you. So, you know, it’s okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his “job” almost landed me half-dead… So they’re instigating and antagonizing you. All of them aren’t bad. But I will tell you that I had one of these guys drive into the side of my car once. That’s how I met my criminal defense attorney. I think the guy who hit me wound up going to jail for a few days. I was not injured. I sprained my ankle because the door hit me really hard, but I’ve sprained my ankle a lot of times before, from soccer and dancing and ballet… I was just turning 19. I was driving my Mercedes, my favorite car, which I worked my ass off to buy for myself . . . I had to just give it away because I was like, “It’s bad luck now.” At the same time, though, I am sort of a speed demon. It’s exhilarating.”

On why she wanted to become an actress: “I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be. When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, “This is one of the great ones.” Like, what is the great film that I will tell my children about? I’m still going to tell them about the old films, the Hitchcock films. And people my age don’t even know who those people are. I can’t even have a conversation with most people of my generation about that, because they’d be like, “Okay, she’s a freak. Something’s wrong with her.” And the worst part is, in terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn’t know how to focus, doesn’t know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party. And you know what? I was 20 years old. I never went to college. And I lived maybe six months out of my life like that, doing something wrong, and then I stopped. God forbid I should have ever learned my lesson. But at this point it’s so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I’m wrong. All these people think I’m never going to be right, because it’s more interesting to fabricate this other girl. Who wants to read a tabloid story about a girl who is doing well?”

On the modeling industry & her Marilyn Monroe photoshoot: “I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons. I found that when I worked with Bert Stern on re-creating the Marilyn Monroe shoot for New York magazine-the one she did right before she passed? When I was able to shoot with him and do that . . . Although I was also terrified to do it because, I mean, we’re two very different people, and I was only 21… But when I did that shoot, people didn’t frown upon it. People were like, “That’s a bold thing to do.” People looked at that shoot more than they’ve looked at any film I’ve done in the past four or five years. And I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone’s life in one way or another.”