Amidst Hollywood’s ongoing obsession with revivals, remakes, and requels actress Lindsay Lohan is making sure one classic film is never touched: “All About Eve.” Lohan told Letterboxd that the 1950 Oscar-winning feature could never be reimagined because the original was just too “perfect.”
“All About Eve,” which turns 75 this year, stars Bette Davis as an aging famed stage actress who becomes the object of obsession by her titular fan-turned-protege assistant (Anne Baxter). Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed the feature.
“Bette Davis, in that movie, you just can’t take your eyes off her,” Lohan said. “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 the dialogue in it…”
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And the “Freakier Friday” star isn’t the only modern actress who counts “All About Eve” as one of her favorite films. “Weapons” and “Fantastic Four” actress Julia Garner previously said during a visit to the Criterion Closet that “All About Eve” is a “perfect film” and required viewing for any cinephile.
“The first film that I’m going to pick is my favorite film, ‘All About Eve.’ Bette Davis is incredible. Anne Baxter, who plays Eve Harrington, is incredible,” Garner said. “I watch this movie at least once a year, sometimes multiple times a year. I just think this is a perfect film, and I think everybody should watch this.”
As for Lohan’s other “four favorites,” she cited Sharon Stone’s performance in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 drama “Casino.” “‘Casino,’ I love. I mean, Sharon Stone in ‘Casino’! And the wardrobe… The way she’s dressed and the way she just commands the room when she comes in on the screen in that movie,” Lohan said, adding of Stone’s co-star, “I love Robert De Niro.”
Lohan might be getting her own shot at portraying another Hollywood starlet: Lohan has been vying to get an Ann-Margret biopic off the ground for years. And Ann-Margret recently told IndieWire that she approves Lohan to play her. “I know that she wants to do that,” “Carnal Knowledge” and “Bye Bye Birdie” star Ann-Margret said. “It just depends on what the dialogue is like. What can I say? I adore her. I think she’s full of talent, and I just would like to see what they can come up with.”
