If you caught the Mean Girls remake that was released earlier this year, you’ll have seen Lindsay Lohan pop up in a small cameo as a nod to the original. But if that didn’t satisfy your Lohan fix, she’s set to play a bigger role in Netflix’s new rom-com Irish Wish, releasing on streaming this week.
She stars as a woman in the publishing business who’s feeling conflicted at the fact that her best friend is getting married to the man she long thought was “the one”, and she’s asked to be a bridesmaid at their wedding. She accepts, but things get interesting when she makes a wish that seems to magically come true…
What is Irish Wish about?
The new movie follows Lohan’s last film outing on Netflix, the festive comedy Falling For Christmas, and is the second in a three-film deal. The Freaky Friday star plays Maddie, a shy book editor who’s currently working on the novel writer Paul Kennedy (Alexander Vlahos) is working on, and it just so happens she’s secretly hopelessly in love with him.
She’s long thought of him as her dream man, but he’s now engaged to Emma (Elizabeth Tan), her best friend. She’s dampened and heartbroken, but she agrees to head to Ireland for the wedding anyway and to act as one of the bridesmaids for her friend’s big day.
Questions swirl around her mind: should she have been more forthcoming and told Paul how she feels? Should she have been more bold in her love life? She doesn’t know but quietly wishes to herself that she was the one marrying him. And, in Freaky Friday fashion, she ends up waking the next morning to find herself in Paul’s bed and apparently on the way to getting hitched.
What else do we know?
She might be elated, but she’s also confused as to how she actually ended up in this different world. “I’m not the one who’s getting married, she is,” she says to her friend Heather (Ayesha Curry), worried Emma will find out, but is shocked to find the pictures of Emma with Paul in their room have changed to pictures of her and Paul.
She doesn’t even know who popped the question- “I proposed to you?” she says flabbergasted when Paul tells their friends how they met. Clearly, it’ll take some getting used to, and this apparent dream life might not be all she hoped for. She isn’t sure if she should really be the one getting married to Paul, and during her time in Ireland finds herself getting closer to James (Ed Speleers), the photographer at the wedding- so perhaps the man of her dreams isn’t who she first thought.
Irish Wish is also set to star screen legend Jane Seymour, alongside Jacinta Mulcahy and Matty McCabe.
When does Irish Wish release?
The rom-com is set to arrive on Netflix on 15th March, and you can watch the trailer below.
