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"Lindsay Lohan is ready for her close-up.\r\nTonight, Nov. 25, the 26-year-old actress makes her debut as screen legend Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime original movie Liz &amp;amp; Dick, about Taylor&amp;apos;s volatile relationship with Richard Burton (played by Grant Bowler), whom she married and divorced twice.\r\n\r\nThe small-screen biopic is one of the most anticipated television events of the year -- largely because of Lohan, who is hoping to make her long-delayed comeback after years of personal drama and legal troubles. (The star has endured a seemingly endless string of public humiliations over the last decade -- among them, five stints in rehab, six arrests, and more than 20,000 minutes behind bars.)\r\n&amp;quot;Everything I&amp;apos;ve gone through made me ready to play Liz,&amp;quot; the star told Us Weekly reporter Jennifer Peros during a recent sit-down interview in Los Angeles, adding that her trials and tribulations have made her both a better person and a better actress.\r\n\r\nLohan&amp;apos;s critics may beg to differ with that statement, but she insists she&amp;apos;s grown up and learned her lessons. She even goes so far as to say that she displays more professionalism than the film icon she&amp;apos;s portraying.\r\n&amp;quot;Elizabeth was drunk on sets. I&amp;apos;ve never been drunk on set, ever,&amp;quot; the Liz &amp;amp; Dick actress told Us. &amp;quot;I did my time and I respect the law.&amp;quot;\r\nLohan does relate to the violet-eyed siren in other ways, though. Like Taylor, she&amp;apos;s a former child star who became a tabloid favorite -- and not always for good reasons.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Since I was a kid, I&amp;apos;ve loved being on camera. Don&amp;apos;t misconstrue that: I didn&amp;apos;t strive to have flashbulbs at dinner or people who don&amp;apos;t know me calling TMZ. And 99 percent of the time, it&amp;apos;s not true,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;I feel bullied. I can&amp;apos;t think of any actor who has been subjected to such extreme publicity who hasn&amp;apos;t, like, committed suicide.&amp;quot;\r\nThat said, Lohan knows she brought some of the attention on herself. And she&amp;apos;s working now to change her image, with a little help from Taylor.\r\n&amp;quot;She probably would have said, &amp;apos;Figure it the hell out,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Lohan told Peros of how the Cleopatra star might have advised her. &amp;quot;You have to learn it for yourself sometimes.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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