Lindsay Lohan in a Washed Up Junkie Role May Be Too Much for Fans

Lindsay Lohan told Vanity Fair she "wants her career back." This might be a hard road to travel after her newest film, Machete, opens on Friday. This was not a film Lohan should have done if she was planning to seek out the A-list roles she once did.

According to ABC News, Lohan plays a "rich spoiled junkie" making sex films for money to support her habit, with the help of her mother in the film. Lohan spends much of the time naked in this film and, along with drugs, alcohol is also a major theme.

Lindsay's father has been a major player in the dysfunction of his daughter, according to Lindsay during her Early Show interview on CBS. In Machete, Lindsay's character has a mother pushing her to do these sex tapes, and, with all the talk about the dysfunctional Lohan family, this just may be too close to real life.

The problem with doing this movie after just coming out of jail and rehab for drugs is that her fans might see this as art imitating life. The freckled-face Disney kid is gone, and a washed out junkie character replaces her on the screen.

The next film Lindsay is slated to do is Inferno, where she plays '70s porn star Linda Lovelace. This is another role that is surrounded with drugs and prostitution.

Although Lindsay is only playing roles, it is going to be hard for viewers to distinguish this after all the publicity she has had regarding jail and rehab.

Fans are very aware that Lindsay has had major problems with drugs and alcohol, and even though she has addressed them with rehab, this is just too soon for her to appear as someone who dug herself into the gutter.

Lindsay should seriously think about other types of roles if she really does want to become the actress she once was. Both women she is playing, in Machete and Inferno, are victims of drugs, men, and the underbelly of society. Their lives have gone out of control. Just coming back from a time when her life was out of control, people might see some of the real Lindsay in these characters.

As the tabloids continue to show pictures of Lindsay coming and going from her favorite night club spots, they are not really seeing any type of change in her as of yet, according to TMZ. She needs to also work on her "reality" image.

References: ABC News,Vanity Fair , Early Show , TMZ