When it comes to deciding which stars will sparkle in a new movie, it’s not just the director’s fancy, the studio’s demands, the tastes of the fans or even the casting couch making the final call. It’s also a bunch of insurance guys.
That’s what we learned when the production team behind “Inferno,” a biopic of tragic ’70s porn star Linda Lovelace, announced they had replaced their original star, Lindsay Lohan. For months, director Matthew Wilder touted the dynamic comeback performance the troubled starlet would unleash; this week he replaced her with Malin Akerman because of “the impossibility of insuring” Lohan.
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