EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay's Inferno Director Banned From Jail Visit
July 27 2010, Published 1:55 p.m. ET
Matthew Wilder, the director of Lindsay Lohan’s new movie Inferno, told Breaking Celebrity News that he was banned from seeing the jailed actress and that he still hopes to start production on the film this fall.
Wilder – who is helming the project about the life of [expletive] star Linda Lovelace – was turned away after attempting to visit Lohan at the Lynwood Correctional Facility.
“It was really frustrating because I wanted to see Lindsay in person on Saturday to try and lift her spirits,” he said. “I went down to Lynwood and filled in all the paperwork and waited in line for about 45 minutes only to be told at the last minute that I could not see her because she had used up all her visits. I immediately called her assistant, Eleanor, and she told me that she would in fact not be able to see anybody which was really frustrating.
“I’m told Lindsay’s spirits are good but that it’s difficult for her, as it would be for anybody, to be locked up in a small cell like that.”
Still, he believes that the troubled star will be ready to start filming Inferno this year once she has completed a stint in rehab as part of the punishment handed out by Judge Marsha Revel.
“We had a producers meeting yesterday and if everything goes to plan we are hoping to start shooting Inferno around November 10, 2010, which would be great.