Cash-strapped and scandal-stained starlet Lindsay Lohan has been dropped from the cast of the forthcoming film The Other Side after the movie’s financiers refused to work with the troubled actress, tattles close to the production have divulged.
Lohan had been tapped to star in the dramedy about a grad student working on a deserted island, but sources related to the production claim the studio became worried about the Mean Girls diva’s ability to deliver in the wake of a series of personal and professional troubles.
“Our team simply chose to move on from Lindsay and we’ll soon be announcing a replacement,” says David Michaels, says the writer/director of the flick, which stars Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews, and Alanis Morissette.
News of the movie debacle comes at the end of a long week for LiLo. Her father attempted to stage an intervention to “save” her on Thursday. Michael Lohan flew from New York to Los Angeles to convince his daughter to enter rehab for addiction to prescription drugs. He went to her apartment building in Hollywood – where she is hosting her 16-year-old sister Ali – accompanied by four plainclothes police officers. The act sent Lindsay on an adrenaline-fueled Twitter rampage against her “ex-dad.”
In addition, Lindsay — who is reportedly having trouble paying her rent — is also rumored to be the main suspect in the recent theft of a friend’s $35,000 Rolex watch.