Lindsay Lohan and the porn star between the sheets: Actress climbs into bed with James Deen on set of The Canyons

After jail and countless court appearances, Lindsay Lohan's movie career finally appears to have been resuscitated.
Having recently wrapped filming on Liz & Dick, the 25-year-old star has gone straight on to her next job, shooting the sexual thriller The Canyons.
Even though filming is only just getting started, director Paul Schrader is already taking an interactive approach - sharing behind the scene photos of Facebook, including this one of Lohan in bed with porn star James Deen, the male lead in the film.
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And, action: Lindsay Lohan is seen here in a behind the scenes snap, filming a love scene in bed with porn star James Deen on the set of The Canyons

Lindsay as apparently agreed to appear fully nude in the movie, which has been written by controversial American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis.
The film is described as a LA noir, and will explore the seedy underbelly of LA life not seen in glossy shows such as MTV reality show The Hills.

 

It appears Lohan and Deen are finding the necessary chemistry, with the porn star sharing details of his rehearsals with the Mean Girls star on his blog.

Back to work: In another picture, shared on the film's official Facebook page, the actress is captured during rehearsals with her co-stars

HOW LINDSAY GOT THE JOB

Director Paul Schrader shared details of his decision-making process in casting Lindsay in the role of Tara on The Canyons' official Facebook page:
'Lindsay Lohan came late to the casting of Tara. I had originally planned to cast Monica Gambee, a model who posted her audition on letitcast. I was surprised how solid her reading was. After Braxton Pope met with her in Los Angeles, I flew out to screen test her. He laid out our situation (in terms of script, budget, nudity) and it seemed like we’d found our Tara. But when Monica heard that we were also considering James Deen, she balked at doing the test. I notified her that I would be willing not to consider Deen if she would be the lead (James had not yet tested), but Monica’s process of indecision was already in motion. It then became one thing one thing after another, and finally, she never came in for the screen test. I had planned that weekend to cast her both her and Sean Brosnan as the leads, but that plan unravelled.
'The weekend of the failed Gambee test, Braxton had approached her Lindsay Lohan’s manager (a friend of Braxton’s) about the possibility of Lindsay playing a cameo, but when we met with her at the Chateau Marmont she said she’d like to play the lead. Braxton and I were quite blunt, explaining we were paying for this ourselves and had no completion insurance and were uncomfortable with her track history. I told her that if she agreed to the micro budget salary did a screen test and completed Liz and Dick on schedule, we’d consider her. Two weeks later; I came to LA again, screen tested Lindsay and everything that has made her such an interesting screen presence came alive in that test. I decided to use her. It took another week weeks to negotiate her backend compensation.'

Writing about his last rehearsal with the actress earlier this week, Deen recalled: 'My favourite part of the day was sitting with Lindsay Lohan (who is amazing) and our director Paul Schrader (who is also amazing) and planning out how we would shoot our love scenes in the movie.'
Deen, the porn industry's Male Performer of the Year has featured in over 4000 X-rated films.
But The Canyons will be his first mainstream movie - and Deen has spoken candidly about his different approach to love scenes for the film.
'Doing porn is easy,' he shared, adding: '[But] the sex scenes in the movie are obviously not particularly sexual scenes. 
'They are plot driven story intensive scenes. The point of all this is that the three of us talked about how each shot was going to go and the choreography of each scene. We talked for a long time about it and even used props.'
In another interesting Facebook post on the official page for the film, Schrader has revealed detailed behind the scenes information about the casting process - and negotiations with Lohan.
He said he was initially considering giving her a cameo role - but was persuaded by her at a meeting at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to give her a go at the lead role.
Schrader openly admits his fears in signing up the actress, based on her 'track history' - and told her he would only consider her if she 'agreed to the 'micro budget salary, did a screen test and completed Liz and Dick on schedule'.
The director also described how his first choice for the role of Tara was model Monica Gambee, not Lohan.
However Gambee 'balked at doing the [screen] test' after hearing porn star Deen was being consider as the male lead at the time.
Schrader wrote: 'It then became one thing one thing after another, and finally, she [Gambee] never came in for the screen test. I had planned that weekend to cast her both her and Sean Brosnan as the leads, but that plan unravelled.'
Even though Lohan 'came late to the casting of Tara' - she managed to impress with her screen test.
Schrader added: 'Everything that has made her such an interesting screen presence came alive in that test. I decided to use her.'

Getting her lines down: Lohan uses cutlery as a prop as she discusses the choreography of her love scene with Deen