Lucky Lindsay and the "Just My Luck" Girls

At the posh 4 Seasons Hotel In Beverly Hills, cast members of the new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy Just My Luck gathered to talk to us about the new film in which Lindsay's very lucky New Yorker character falls in love with a hot but unlucky guy. We arrived early and, from our interview room high up in the hotel, we could see Lindsay below in the hotel garden getting primped by stylists and make-up artists for a TV interview. Finally, it was our turn to have some fun girltalk with Lindsay and her co-stars, Samaire Armstrong and Bree Turner. When the girls are together they sound more like sorority sisters than movie co-stars.

It was a crazy afternoon. The cast hadn't seen each other for a while and wanted to hug, reminisce and compare notes. Pull up a chair and get ready to talk fashion, beauty products, movies, writing songs, good luck charms, future projects, accidents on set, kissing guys, getting tattoos, rumors etc. because we're going to give you the step-by-step action of the day as the actors trickled into the room one by one when their TV interviews ended. First was pretty Bree Turner who was just in Bring It On Again and who started in the business as a dancer. In Just My Luck, she plays Dana, one of the best gal pals to Lindsay's P.R. account exec character Ashley.

TeenHollywood: Hi Bree. You look cute. What are you wearing?

Bree: Thanks. I'm wearing a Nanette Lepore top and my old Sassoon jeans and my [yellow] Frederick's pumps for $17.99. I am very proud of them. And my marble bag from the thrift store, probably costs about $20

TeenHollywood: You've got on a lot of bracelets.

Bree: This is from my mom, and this one from Samaire and this is from Lindsay and this is from my boyfriend. They are my little good luck bracelets.

TeenHollywood: Did you all exchange jewelry after the movie wrapped?

Bree: Yeah, you know, little wrap gifts at the end of the movie. It's always fun.

TeenHollywood: How was it playing a best pal to Lindsay in this movie?

Bree: It was great. We had a really really good time working together actually. It was like a total slumber party, the whole experience. I've done mostly male- driven films, so it was really fun for me to have just a girly fun giggle fest of a job.

TeenHollywood: Did you get to experience what Lindsay goes through in terms of media frenzy?

Bree: Yeah. It was really wild for me. I'd never seen the paparazzi, and just the onslaught of media and attention. It was wild. I have to say, she handled it very gracefully. I was very impressed.

At this point cute blonde with ponytail Samaire Armstrong (TV's "Entourage" , "The O.C." and the recent scarefest Stay Alive) enters and takes her seat next to Bree. She's looking Bo-Ho in green tights, big crystal necklace, big black belt, rust shirt. Samaire plays Maggie, the songwriter galpal in the film. The girls hug and Samaire (pronounced Sameerah but called "Sa" by her pals) joins the conversation. The girls chatter about facing the paparazzi, Lindsay falling down during a scene and their reactions.

TeenHollywood: Do you believe that some people are just luckier than others? Do you have any superstitions like that?

Bree: I am very superstitious. But now I feel like hard work gets luck. And then I think some people are a bit more charmed than others though. I am deeply superstitious. I come from a very deeply superstitious family. We knock on wood and throw salt over our shoulders.

Whoops, everything stops. Here comes Lindsay. She's changed clothes (big surprise) since we saw her in the garden below and is now wearing a cute Chanel black, sleeveless dress with gold threads running through it, over leggings and little flats. Her hair is back to dark auburn, her nails are painted dark red and whoa, she's wearing an ankle brace on her left ankle. Lots of greetings and hugs all around.

TeenHollywood: Lindsay, how did you hurt your leg?

Lindsay: I have a hairline fracture in my foot. It's funny. I slipped coming out of the shower. But on the film, I twisted my ankle while we were shooting in New York. My right foot. And it's really ironic since the film is called Just My Luck. And yesterday morning, I was coming out of the shower, and yeah I slipped. I have to wear this. So I can't wear heels, that's the bad thing.

TeenHollywood: Well you've got cute flats.

Lindsay: Thanks, [making a sad face] I'm injured (laughs).

TeenHollywood: So do you think you are an unlucky person?

Lindsay: No, I think I am very lucky. [hugs the girls] Look at this great cast that I have!

TeenHollywood: Do you have any good luck charms?

Lindsay: Yeah, I do. My sister. This bracelet that I have on is a good luck charm. It's from Kaviar and Kind on Sunset Boulevard. You can actually see it on the cover of W Magazine, yes, the one with Meryl Streep, thank you very much. I get good luck charms. Bree got me a really nice ring that I stlll have.

Bree: I love that ring and I actually have your bracelet on. Sa gave me this, you gave me this.

Lindsay: Well you guys have matching tattoos.

Samaire: I know, We had a lot of time on our hands on this movie.

Lindsay: [to the girls] Sorry, I didn't mean to start anything. [to us] They were there when I got my first tattoo.

TeenHollywood: Where is it and what did you get?

Lindsay: I got "La Bella Vita." They said it was like "the beautiful view," it's on my lower back. It's for my grandfather. It means "the beautiful life."

TeenHollywood: So what did you guys do to bond on the set, off the set?

Lindsay: Got tattoos! And, we actually wrote a lot of music!

Bree: Two musically talented gifted girls.. And then I had the worst voice ever.

Samaire: You're a decent rapper though.

Bree: Well, I rapped. We had a lot of down time so we saw we had an Apple Computer and we did a Garage Band.

Lindsay: We should do like it a DVD special and put our music on it.

Samaire: And we shopped online a lot.

TeenHollywood: Uh oh. What did you buy?

Lindsay and Bree: Urban Outfitter.com. Yeah Urban Outfitter was a big one.

Bree: We did buy out Urban Outfitters. We know the people there so well. Sa's like, 'I 'think I am going to order a chandelier.' You have to actually transport that though.

Lindsay: It was fun because we redecorated the trailers, it was fun, it was like a sorority.

TeenHollywood: What else did you do?

Lindsay: We took a lot of road trips too

Samaire: We drove to Baton Rouge.

TeenHollywood: What music did you play on the trip?

Lindsay: We played the Cure, I remember that.

Samaire: We found a really good mix CD

Lindsay: We didn't find it, honey! We stole it. We went on a treasure hunt.

Samaire: We figured we'd stay out of trouble, it would be good to have an objective when going on a road trip.

Lindsay: We went to a college.

Samaire We made a list of things we had to accomplish: A picture of a dog, something gold.

Lindsay: Someone's basketball

Samaire: We found everything on it including a mix CD which we listened to all the way home, it was Salt N Pepa....it was good.

TeenHollywood: Nobody stopped and recognized you?

Lindsay: We had a limo

TeenHollywood: Oh, a Hollywood road trip. Who went, the three girls?

Lindsay: Yeah, and Jessie (her friend). We had a destination. And then we had to go to the set. That was the mud day.

TeenHollywood: Did you want to take this project because you could play a young adult woman rather than a teen?

Lindsay: Yeah, it's kind of like a coming of age thing for me. Everything I am doing after this, my characters are the same age if not older, and are maturing. You can only act like you are in high school for so long I feel. It's not a dark film so I can still keep the fan base that I've grown with. It's a really lovely film. It's my first romantic comedy. I get to kiss Chris Pine in it. [the girls indicate 'yum']. Uh oh, next thing you know, [the press is going to say] I'm dating him tomorrow. No, it's a great film for me that has a great message. And I think that's important. I still have a young audience to look out for and this is acceptable for the younger audience and for people that are older than me. And it was hard for me to find that kind of film, so it was nice that I found it in this.

TeenHollywood: Ashley's charmed life kind of shelters her from the real world a lot. Do you ever feel like fame can do that?

Lindsay: It depends on who you surround yourself with. If you surround yourself with people who are going to treat you as they would if you didn't have your pictures everywhere and such. I have a really great family and great group of people. And I consider myself a pretty humble person. Fame is fame. What is fame?

TeenHollywood: You actually do a lot of kissing in this film. Did you get to pick the guys or did you get to give a thumbs up, thumbs down?

Lindsay: Yeah, we looked at pictures. One looked like Jack Berger from "Sex and the City" so we liked that.

Bree: And then all of a sudden, I was kissing people. I was like wait, I read the script and I didn't have any...then all of a sudden, I'm making out with Fabio (just a long-haired guy) in one scene.

Lindsay: I didn't want to be the only one kissing someone. (laughter)

Samaire: I really liked that scene in the art gallery where you kissed when you tackled the guy. That's really cute.

Lindsay: It was uncomfortable when we were shooting in Central Park and there were all these people lined up, and all these kids started accumulating while we were shooting. And I am standing there jogging next to this guy and all of a sudden you just see me kind of attack the guy and kiss him. They were like, 'oh you can't do that'. I felt so uncomfortable. I actually got to the point where I was, 'can I kiss him on the cheek and make it look like I am really kissing him?' But, I kissed him to get my luck back.

TeenHollywood: You have some cool clothes in this film. Did you get to keep any or especially like a piece of clothing?

Lindsay: We were just talking about it! After you wear it, day in and day out, you don't really want to keep it. (laughs) But, I like the white Versace jacket. I kept some stuff. We all kept some stuff.

Bree: I walked away with a nice pair of jeans

TeenHollywood: So what unlucky things happened on the set?

Lindsay: Well with me, I sprained my ankle. That was very unlucky.

At this point, director Donald Petrie, who is in the room, interjects...

Donald: Well, there was that time when Lindsay's walking along with me on the street and turns a corner and walks smack dab into the glass wall. Just walks like that (demonstrates how she does it,) And I'm going, 'Oh shit! I thought 'oh my God, a broken nose!' But she's laughing at me!

Lindsay: And then they put it in to the movie!

TeenHollywood: You are accident prone! So when you are doing stuff like that, do you know it's funny when you are doing it?

Lindsay: Yeah, If I am going to walk into a glass wall, I'd hope that people would laugh! I put that much effort into it, and God forbid something did happen with my luck! But, when we were shooting like all through the night on the washer dryer scene, which is my favorite, I got a rash remember? From the bubbles. I started breaking out in hives all over from the soap

Samaire: It's because she's a redhead. Redheads have sensitive skin.

TeenHollywood: Did you have a double for the stunt scenes?

Lindsay: I did have a stunt double but I ended up doing it. In one particular scene, when I am in the bowling alley and I am cleaning and waxing the floor, they didn't want me to do it because they were nervous which they should be. But I actually ended up doing it.

TeenHollywood: How icky was that fall into the mud?

Lindsay: I had a mud mask. That was fun. I had just done my hair and makeup! Then I started to feel like I was eating it. Cause Donald was like, 'let it melt more in your mouth, And let it start falling down your face.' And I was like, 'I really don't feel like doing this again now!'

TeenHollywood: Do you get more satisfaction from slapstick comedy than you do from reciting really funny lines?

Lindsay: I think slapstick comedy can seem more effective just because it's a visual of someone hurting himself. It can be funny sometimes.

TeenHollywood: You seem to really dive into it.

Lindsay: I feel that if I'm going to do it, I'm going to go for it. At first it's always nerve-wracking, and then once you get comfortable with it, you realize, 'I want to make it as funny as I possibly can.' But I don't prefer one or the other. This is the first time that I really did a lot of physical comedy, and I really enjoyed it.

TeenHollywood: There is a gypsy fortune teller in the film. Any one of you ever go to a Tarot card reading?

Lindsay: I drive by the place so many times when in New York where we actually shot it. It's an actual [store].

Bree: It's bad news, I did it once. It was about seven years ago. They told me I was cursed in love and that's basically like sticking a stake into my heart. I'm obviously way overly sensitive. Long story short, she scammed me out of $350, seven years ago. Then I saw she had small children so I thought of it as a donation to her family

Lindsay: That's a lot of money. I was 12. I was just doing Freaky Friday. I was like schizophrenic, playing twins.

TeenHollywood: Do you three ladies have strong women friends you can turn to?

Samaire: Oh, heck yeah.

Lindsay: My friend's here, the one that I live with. Jessie. She was there when we were filming (she points to back of room to a cute girl in casual braids and newsboy cap). Uh oh, she hates being put on the spot. I'm going to hear about this after.

TeenHollywood: Are those relationships really important to you?

Lindsay: Oh, absolutely. Where are you without friends? I'm a girl's girl.

At this point, Bree apologizes and gets up to leave:

Bree: Bye! I'm doing a play. It's called "Glory Pie", it's at the Coronet. It's so fun. We got a huge review in Variety, rave review!

TeenHollywood: Congrats! Aren't you doing a TV pilot too?

Bree: yeah, the Wayne Brady one for the CW. We're still waiting to hear. It's almost definite. Knock on wood. [In it] I work at a women's magazine, with Tamala Jones and Wayne is the only guy hired at the magazine. And crazy antics ensue. I'm so sorry I have to go, but thank you (we bid her goodbye).

TeenHollywood: Lindsay, what music plans do you have?

Lindsay: The Prairie Home Companion (her next movie) CD is coming out, the soundtrack of the movie, I sing in the movie. I don't know, I'm filming here, Georgia Rules and then I think maybe Barcelona and then I'm filming Speechless.

TeenHollywood: Can you talk about choosing to be in The Prairie Home Companion?

Lindsay: Would you turn down a movie that Robert Altman was directing and Meryl Streep was playing your mother in? They said, 'OK we're making the movie and they want you to be Meryl Streep's daughter in it.' And my role kinda got bigger as it went along. I would just look at the call sheet and I would just see the most amazing actors. I didn't believe was coming onto the set every day. It was a wonderful experience for me. It was my first independent film. It was nice to be able to sing live. It is just one of those movies where it's always going to be nice to have to look back on. It's like an amazing kind of monumental film and cast in its own way.

TeenHollywood: You sing in the film. Were you at all nervous about if you could pull it off?

Lindsay: I was definitely nervous. Everyone was there that day on set. They just happened to have to be there on the side of the stage. I only rehearsed that song 'Frankie and Johnny' I think three times. And they kept changing it. I was nervous. We don't really have musicals that are done like this movie. And Robert Altman obviously has a way of kind of incorporating comedy and the darker side in films. It's kind of a creepy movie in its own way. But it's still really funny.

TeenHollywood: What drives you to work so hard?

Lindsay: Those movies are independents so it's so much easier, I feel. It feels like a lot less pressure. There's not as much money so you shoot for a shorter amount of time. I really like all the different characters. And it's really nice to be able to travel and not be in New York or L.A. and places that I'm going to see everyone that I know, and just focus on the work. It's experience and I want to have as much experience as I can. You only live once. I'm doing Bill with Aaron Eckhardt. It's a dry humor film.

TeenHollywood: Did doing The Prairie Home Companion give you the indie bug?

Lindsay: I think that's just the projects that have caught my eye. They're different. And the characters are all so different from everything I've done. I'm growing up. In Georgia Rule I play a girl that's been molested by her stepfather. Garry Marshall is doing it. It's a dark comedy. I feel that people will be judgmental but all of them have an arc and it's nice to play different people and go into more mature roles as I grow.

TeenHollywood: On "Praire Home", did Meryl Streep have any advice for you? What was your relationship like?

Lindsay: More of a friend relationship. Her daughters were there all the time, one's my age and one's older and one's younger. The whole cast went to dinner every single night so everyone really got close to each other and it was like a big family which is really amazing. Meryl was getting ready to do The Devil Wears Prada after that and she was like, 'I don't know anything about fashion.' And then I asked her to do a W shoot after that.

TeenHollywood: Aren't you also in a film with Jared Leto, about Mark David Chapman, the guy who shot John Lennon?

Lindsay: Yes. Jared Leto just put on so many pounds for the character. I don't want to say too much about it but I start it in two weeks and that shoots in St. Louis. Sean Lennon's a friend. I just did his music video actually and we write music together and stuff. I actually sat down with Yoko Ono a few times to talk to her about it

Samaire: Really? Wow! That's really cool

Lindsay: Yeah. It's a very touchy subject and no one that works with me wanted me to do the movie. John Lennon was a legend, God rest his soul. And I was actually really nervous going into it because I did get death threats and everything but I love my character in the movie and she's just such a genuine fan of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. She's the light in the movie. Jared Leto did a great job. And it was interesting to me. And I wanted to get the okay from Yoko and Sean.

TeenHollywood: What were your impressions of Yoko?

Lindsay: I nearly died. I walked in, we were wearing almost the same thing; all black because I was like 'I need to wear something that Yoko would like.' And we went and had sushi and she was so sweet and just amazing in the things that she had to say. I just think the things that she's done are wonderful and John Lennon's music is very inspirational as was hers. 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' is like my favorite song.

TeenHollywood: What do you really do in your spare time, Lindsay?

Lindsay: Well, apparently I just go out to clubs, with a sprained ankle and all. Actually, I spend as much time as I can with my friends when I'm in the same place as them. And when I'm in New York it's great because I'm really close with my sister and whenever she's with me she makes me happy. My mom is always like, 'she has to go to school, Lindsay.' Now I think she's gonna play a younger me in a movie so she'll be with me. It's called Veronica Decides to Die.

TeenHollywood: Where do those "Lindsay parties all the time" rumors start?

Lindsay: If you can find out...I don't know. Drama sells so people are going to keep doing it. If I dated as many men as they say I have, then I'd be dead by now! Honestly. But you come into this industry and you want to be written about to an extent, but you're putting yourself in a place where people are going to put you on a pedestal. And sometimes they build you up to try to take you down. But that teaches you to work harder, and this is what I love to do. When I was four years old I didn't say, 'I want to be written about as going to Bungalow 8 every night and showing up to the set late.' You live and you learn. I read that I'm in New York when I'm here. And my mom's mad at me: 'you're in New York and you're not coming home?!' 'I'm NOT in New York'!

TeenHollywood: Let's talk fashion. Do you have any favorite designers or brands?

Lindsay: A lot, honestly. I'm thinking collections because I've been doing fashion shoots. Yves St. Laurent's collection is one I really like. I like Balenciaga, I like Chanel. Tsumori Chisato

TeenHollywood: Are you planning any fashion buys for spring?

Lindsay: Oh my God, if you saw my closet. I never need to shop again

Samaire: It's not a closet, it's a house full of clothes.

Lindsay: I like to collect a lot. I collect pieces. I really like fashion. I collect Hermes bangles. A stack of them.

TeenHollywood: You filmed Just My Luck in New Orleans before Katrina. Did any of the locations or favorite hangouts get messed up?

Samaire: A cool old grocery store that isn't there anymore.

Lindsay: My hotel, everything was destroyed down there. We were really lucky that we documented it, you know.

Samaire We were there for Mardi Gras

TeenHollywood: Did you take any souvenirs from the set?

Lindsay: I have so much stuff

Samaire: I have a box of Mardi Gras beads I collected. I got a gazillion beads and left the box in my hotel room and asked production to pack up what I had left there. I really didn't think they were going to send it but I have it at my house.

TeenHollywood: We see that you are back to the red hair. Are you keeping your hair red for a while?

Lindsay: I actually promised the people from Fox, when I went in for the meeting about the publicity for the film, that I would go back to red [her hair is red in the movie]. But I'm strawberry blonde in Georgia Rule. I'll be back to dark soon. The only reason I don't want to wear red is then you don't feel like the person you're portraying. My mom's so happy that I'm red. 'Cause I'm her baby, redhead. I don't care at this point. I'm comfortable in my own skin. I've learned to be. . I feel like changing my hair color will help the viewers of the film believe that I'm not Lindsay.

TeenHollywood: Let's get a beauty tip. Since you dye it so much, what do you use on it to keep it healthy?

Lindsay: Kerastase. Good conditioner.

TeenHollywood: Do you have a beauty indulgence?

Lindsay: Fake tans. I met this woman when I did "Saturday Night Live". I felt really white and pale and wanted to go out get a tan. Lorne Michaels [producer of the show] was like 'you're not leaving. I don't know if you're gonna come back.' So he goes, 'we've sent for someone to come in." This woman shows up and gives me paper underpants. I was like, 'no that's fine, I'll keep my shorts on.' And she takes out this whole setup and this bottle and she has me stand there and she sprays me. She says, 'it's gonna get darker." And was like, 'What do you mean? How much darker is it gonna get in the next hour and a half, we're live!' and we did the dress rehearsal and by the end of the dress rehearsal Lorne Michaels comes up to me and goes, 'We're wondering if we can do something about the tan. It's getting a little orange.' I was like 'You're the one who sent her here!' I was so terrified but it washed off really nicely

TeenHollywood: Samaire, how about your beauty indulgence?

Samiaire: I like to get my hair done a lot, my roots touched up. And I like the smell of the place. I go to David Paul.

TeenHollywood: Lindsay, have you finished the movie about Bobby Kennedy? Who do you play?

Lindsay: Yeah, it's done. Emilio (Estevez) wrote [my character] into the movie. Her name's not Diane but I'm Diane in it. He was at a hotel and she was at the desk and said 'Can I ask what you're doing here? This is the most random place for you to come'. And he said, 'Well, I'm writing a movie.' She goes, 'Well, can I ask what it's about or is this some big Hollywood secret?' He said, 'No, it's about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.' The way Emilio described it, she grabbed the desk and put her head down and she looked up and tears were welling in her eyes and she was like 'I was there'. It's a nice character and I have some great scenes in it. The movie's beautiful.

TeenHollywood: Was it weird doing a movie about a time period before you were born?

Lindsay: I think it's a great thing for me. My sister was on the set a few times and she learned so much. She was actually learning about the assassination in school so she came to visit me in L.A. and stayed with me for two weeks. And she learned so much just being there. For me, and for my younger fans, it's nice that the younger audience can learn from that.

TeenHollywood: Who are most of your scenes with?

Lindsay: Sharon Stone, William H. Macy, Elijah Wood, that's really it. I know that Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins and I are going to go and promote it so that's an honor.

TeenHollywood: Samaire are you doing any more of Entourage?

Samaire: No. I was filming Just my Luck during the filming of "Entourage" so I missed it. I have a movie called Rise coming out and It's a Boy Girl Thing coming out. And I'm working on music and a book called "A Girl's Guide to Coexisting". It's super cool with things like 'don't think about boys except on Fridays and Saturdays because they're a distraction!' This weekend I'll be going to New York to discuss it.

TeenHollywood: Lindsay, do you work out or run or anything?

Lindsay: I don't like to run but there is one thing that I always do and people think I'm a little bit crazy. I just drop and do pushups. I'm always doing pushups. I have these skinny arms. My brother used to make fun of me because I couldn't do pushups. I'm pretty good. I have to do one leg right now because of my ankle. It does work. It gets you pumped.

TeenHollywood: Could you do some now? (We're actually kidding but she drops to the floor and does twelve of them!!.. Even with an injured foot)! What a trouper!

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Lynn Barker is a Hollywood-based entertainment journalist and produced screenwriter.