Two Crew Members On Lindsay Lohan Movie ‘Liz & Dick’ Sidelined With Exhaustion
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan is not the only person working on the Lifetime film Liz & Dick who is suffering from exhaustion. I’ve learned that two crew members in the hair department left the production yesterday with exhaustion. The network had no information whether two two sought treatment though according to a source, they went to the hospital with “severe dehydration and exhaustion.” Word is that the crew of the movie about Elizabeth Taylor’s romance with Richard Burton, has been working 20 or more hours a day.
Lohan, who plays Taylor in the movie, made headlines Friday morning when paramedics were called to her hotel room where she was found unconscious. According to her spokesman, she had been on set from 7 PM the night before until 8 AM and was treated at the hotel for “some exhaustion and dehydration.” Lohan did not go to the hospital and returned to work Friday night. “After working 85 hours in 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you might pass out from exhaustion & 7 paramedics MIGHT show up,” Lohan wrote on Twitter yesterday.
Stop production. This stupid project should not cause anyone a hangnail, let alone real medical problems.
You’re actually believing the studio’s smoke screen? The studio is trying to limit the bad publicity from Lohan passing out (again) by having two hair dressers claim that they’re “exhausted” also, and you buy it hook, line and sinker.
That was my first thought too.
Cover for the Lohan.
Mine as well, not a bad move though.
That makes NO sense. Why would Lifetime risk themselves having MORE bad publicity? If you look at any of the peoples Twitters who are working on their film, they’ve all been complaining about being tired even PRIOR to Lohan’s exhaustion, one person tweeted a picture of them sleeping on the set. I think some of you people are way too cynical.
They probably concluded that the advantages of the story outweighed the disadvantages.
If someone handed me five grand in a paper bag, I’d gladly “suffer from exhaustion” for a few days too.
They are being way to cynical. If this were some other actor/actress you wouldn’t hear this much negativity but being that it is Lohan here they come out of the woodwork with ‘cover ups’ and conspiracies. Other crew members are saying the same thing about twenty plus hour days but I guess the whole set is in Lohan’s pocket if you believe the cynics.
Repeat offender.
I agree. Also, hair stylists are almost always hired by the actor. They are friends of Lindsay and are trying to help prove that she is just being worked too hard. When I guarantee that isn’ the case. Shame on the producers for even thinking she could handle this. Fire her, scrap the show, and get an actress that deserves to play the role.
Beatrix Kiddo is absolutely correct. I have it on good authority that this is the case. Classic diversion by the studio, but it’s not fooling anyone.
I’m not in the business but isn’t there laws governing things like this? Especially SAG as well as some of the other unions? Curious.
shut down the production
Any production that hires Lohan has to be sketchy….anyone that signed up for it, should have been aware of this
Partying from 7pm til 8am has never bothered her.
All this tells me is that the production is so desperate to make Lohan’s lies believable they were willing to say 2 other people had the same issues as her, even if it meant they look like slave drivers.
I certainly don’t mean to detract from the hard work the hair department does, but if the production really is driving people to the point of exhaustion, don’t you think one of the groups with a greater physically demanding job would be the ones dropping?
I’m so sick and tried of this whole “exhaustion” excuse. A person in the real world can’t use that as an excuse to get out of work. Also, as far as dehydration goes, are there no bottles of water (or access to any type of liquids) on set? Seriously, these excuses need to be done away with.
Exactly. And what about the doctors, nurses, military personnel, and various others — I don’t often hear THEM collapsing with that excuse. But Lindsay is Lindsay. No, Lindsay is entitled. Wait..no, Lindsay is a DISASTER.
Crew people…Please don’t work these kind of hours…just walk away.
Is this a union production? There are supposed to union rules in place to prevent things like this from happening.
What idiot needs a union to tell them to make sure they drink 64 ounces of water a day? Where the hell are they filming this movie that they have no access to water? Ethiopia?
What Lissa meant was that a union would prevent a production from making people work such long hours that they need medical care. No one thinks the union should tell people to drink when they’re thirsty.
Don’t shut it down, just do it according to union/guild guidelines and this won’t happen.
C’mon people. Exhaustion? Lohan is a disaster and drags everybody and everything around her down to her level. Do we really believe that everybody is working too hard or do we think that Lohan is still partying too hard and her glam team are joining in on the action?