Lindsay Lohan: Bug Possession

Herbie, that lovable Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own — and the star of such films as "The Love Bug" and "Herbie Goes Bananas" — is racing back into theaters, and this time Lindsay Lohan is going along for the ride. "Herbie: Fully Loaded" is still in production, but we caught up with Lohan on the set to see how things were going so far on the flick, which takes place in the world of NASCAR and features such co-stars as Breckin Meyer ("Clueless"), Justin Long (TV's "Ed") and Michael Keaton.



MTV: Tell us a little about the movie. What's it like?

Lindsay Lohan: "Herbie: Fully Loaded" is a remake of an older movie, and it's basically about a car that comes to life but not in a cheesy way. The car just, you know, it takes off with me in it. There's all these crazy driving scenes in it. ... It's kinda like a racing movie, I guess you could say — a lot of NASCAR driving and stuff in it, so that's really cool.

MTV: What's it like having a car as a co-star?

Lohan: It's a little bit awkward because there will be scenes where I'll be talking to the car and I'll be standing there and I'll be thinking to myself, "I'm talking to a car, I look a little crazy right now." But it's funny and it's sweet.

MTV: You just shot the scene where you figure out that the car is magical and is acting out by itself, right? What happens there?

Lohan: Basically, I got the car the same day. I found a friend who works in a mechanic shop and I meet up with him and I get in the car and the car kind of takes off on me with me in it. And he gets in the car and we are going to take it for a test drive and it takes off with me and him in it again and it takes me to a car show because it knows that I'm a racer apparently. I don't know how — some magical way. But, you know, it's cute, it's sweet, and we come to this car show and it's really embarrassing 'cause this car is all beat up and it's, like, clunking in. It ends up doing some damage to someone else's car as well so ...

MTV: What's it like working alongside Justin Long and Breckin Meyer?




Herbie "The Love Bug"


Lohan: Justin Long is really cool, it's fun to work with him. He is very goofy — him as well as Breckin Meyer. It's really nice to have that on the set because you get tired and you need to be uplifting and everything, and he's like that, so we goof around a lot we have a lot of fun. ... Breckin is hysterical, working with him is great. He's so funny, and when I was younger I watched him in "Clueless," so I remember him as that character all the time, but he's so funny. He's just genuinely a guy who doesn't try to be funny at all but he just is. They played a joke on me on the set recently. I don't know where they found it, but they found this huge stuffed spider. It looked so realistic, and he came out of the car and slid out and it was on top of him and I freaked out and screamed and everything. He's just really funny.

MTV: Are there a lot of pranks on the set?

Lohan: Oh, him and Justin tortured me and my friends once. Sometimes out in Acton [California], 'cause Acton is in the middle of nowhere, so it's like pitch black, we were in the desert, there's nothing around us and it's kind of creepy . We were shooting at this barn and it looks like the house from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or something when you are standing far away. They were torturing us in my trailer, just like on the roof, underneath, it was funny.

MTV: Did you get to do any of driving scenes yourself?

Lohan: I have done some. I mean, not as much as I would have liked to have done, because it's not very safe. I had to take lessons and stuff for the movie, and I had to learn how to drive like a racer and everything, so that was cool. And I have done some stuff where I get to stunt drive, so that's fun.

MTV: What's been the hardest part about making the film?

Lohan: We had to shoot in out in the desert, we had to shoot in Acton and we had to shoot in Fontana. And at the NASCAR races they're wearing the full suits, the NASCAR suits. And luckily, thank God, got to take the lining out of ours. But it was over a hundred degrees and it was just like you're sweating to death, and out in Acton it was like 120 degrees one day. We were just dying. That was probably the worst part. Everything else has been really fun.

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