Lindsay Lohan has revealed her favourite film in an interview with social media for film lovers, Letterboxd. The actor named her top four films but mentioned that one of them would be her “dream role”. All About Eve was the choice of the Freaky Friday actor.
Lohan said: “All About Eve. Bette Davis in that movie, you just can’t take your eyes off her. It’s one of those movies you can never remake because it’s so perfect. But that would be the dream role to play. Just because it’s incredible – just the dialogue in it.”
All About Eve is a 1950 drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It is based on the 1946 short story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr. The film stars Bette Davis and Anne Baxter alongisde George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, and Hugh Marlowe, and features Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden.
The film’s synopsis reads: “Backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington. Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing, telling a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Margo takes Eve under her wing, and it appears that Eve is a conniver that uses Margo.”
In the interview gave an honourable mention to three other films.
She said: “Casino, I love. Sharon Stone in Casino – and the wardrobe. The way she’s dressed, and the way she just comands the room when she comes in on the screen in that movie. And Robert De Niro in that movie, I love. I love that pink suit.”
She highlighted another film “for fun”, being Crazy Rich Asians. Lohan added: “That movie just makes me so happy. I could just watch it over and over.”
Pretty Women was the final choice for Lohan, who mentioned her favourite moments in the film: “When she takes the wig off with her curly red hair, and the robe.
“When she’s singing Prince in the bathtub.”
The actor also gave a mention to Bye Bye Birdie, but it is clear All About Eve is the frontrunner.
All About Eve is available to stream on BBC iPlayer now.
