Lindsay Lohan Is ‘Falling For Christmas’ In First Main Film Function In Practically 10 Years

Netflix acknowledged “Imply Women Day” on Monday by granting viewers a primary have a look at its forthcoming vacation romantic comedy starring Lindsay Lohan.

Due out Nov. 10, “Falling for Christmas” marks Lohan’s first main position in a serious film in almost a decade. She performs Sierra, a spoiled, newly engaged resort heiress who’s stricken with amnesia after being injured in a snowboarding accident.

The memory-impaired Sierra begins her restoration within the care of a widowed ski lodge proprietor, Jake (performed by “Glee” actor Chord Overstreet), and his younger daughter (Olivia Perez) simply days earlier than Christmas.

In an interview with Netflix revealed this week, Lohan mentioned that engaged on “Falling for Christmas” felt like a throwback to the early days of her profession.

“It’s such a refreshing, heartwarming romantic comedy,” she mentioned, “and I miss doing these sorts of films.”

Talking of throwbacks: Netflix unveiled the photographs on Monday, Oct. 3, to coincide with the date referenced by Lohan’s Cady Heron in a classroom alternate together with her crush, Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), in an iconic scene from 2004’s “Imply Women.”

A number of of Lohan’s “Imply Women” co-stars have discovered success within the vacation style. In 2020, Bennett made historical past when he appeared in “The Christmas Home,” the Hallmark Channel’s first vacation movie to characteristic an LGBTQ storyline.

Actor Lacey Chabert, in the meantime, has starred in a number of Hallmark vacation movies, together with final 12 months’s “Christmas at Citadel Hart” and 2015’s “A Christmas Melody.” The latter film co-starred the queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey.

Directed by Janeen Damian, “Falling for Christmas” is Lohan’s first entry in a three-picture cope with Netflix. Her subsequent mission for the streaming platform is a romantic comedy titled “Irish Want.”

If all goes effectively, “Falling for Christmas” may mark the beginning of a comeback for Lohan, whose final main movie position was 2013’s “The Canyons.” That very same 12 months, she spoke at size about her experiences with drug and alcohol habit in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, and relocated to Europe and the Center East shortly thereafter.

By the beginning of 2020, nevertheless, Lohan expressed curiosity in transferring again to the U.S. to revive her work as an actor and singer.

“I need to actually give attention to me and all the pieces that I can do in my life, and are available again to America and begin filming once more, which I’m doing one thing quickly on this new 12 months,” she instructed Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in a New 12 months’s Eve interview on the time. “And, you already know, simply taking again the life I’ve labored so exhausting for and sharing it with my household and also you guys.”