IF Lindsay Lohan wants to know just how difficult it could be to revive her imploding movie career, she should talk to Woody Allen, who was forced to jettison both Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder from one of his movie projects.
In "Conversations With Woody Allen," out this October from Knopf, the famed director tells author Eric Lax he was desperate to cast Downey and Ryder in his 2002 flick, "Melinda and Melinda." But, "I couldn't get insurance on them . . . We couldn't get bonded. The completion bonding companies would not bond the picture unless we could insure them."
"The insurance companies are very prissy and sticky and gave us a hard time," Allen recalled. When Allen was told the duo weren't acceptable, "the actors got upset with us, like we're the ones who made the decision. But I felt we're the ones getting screwed every bit as much as them."
Lohan now faces a similar uphill struggle. She's already been dropped from a Shirley MacLaine project, which ended up being shelved for the time being.
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