Back in July,
Matthew Wilder, director of the Linda Lovelace biopic
Inferno wrote that he was 100% behind his recently jailed lead
Lindsay Lohan and that we was willing to play the waiting game for her to recover from rehab to star in his movie, even going so far as claiming he was "proud to have this remarkable artist work on our film". Last week though
his tune had changed and there's only so long you can wait for people to sort themselves out before you have to cut that cord of support. Over the weekend
it was announced that he had chosen
Malin Akerman as Lohan's replacement, and the film can now safely go in front of camera's in February. Akerman is basically the modern day equilviant of an early
Cameron Diaz (she looks and acts like her too), moving from rom-com to rom-com as the 'go to' secondary female character (sister or girlfriend of a character) and her chance at the mainstream with
Watchmen last year hasn't done anything to her immediate career. This picture, which will require her to
throw semen on her face and
have sex with a dog, is her first leading vehicle but obviously a risky one. Akerman had been appearing in 2-3 movies per year, a steady working actress - one wonders if this is the project she should risk her reputation on?
Lovelace, was the legendary porn star who found fame in the early 70s movie
Deep Throat, only to then become a big spokeswoman against pornography claiming she was abused and forced into sexual acts she wanted no part of.
Anna Faris had spent some time attached to the movie, before Lohan took over, and now Akerman. But thanks to the acts involved in the movie - there was something more fitting about Lohan leading this picture, right? Wilder directs from his own 2008 Black Listed screenplay based on "
Ordeal: An Autobiography".