Everything You Need to Know About Lindsay Lohan’s New Rom-Com ‘Irish Wish’

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride — unless, of course, your best friend gets engaged to the love of your life, you make a spontaneous wish for true love, and then magically wake up as the bride-to-be. That’s the pickle in which Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls, The Parent Trap) finds herself in the upcoming romantic comedy Irish Wish.

Directed by Janeen Damian (Falling for Christmas), produced by Brad Krevoy and Michael Damian, and written by Kirsten Hansen, Irish Wish follows shy book editor Maddie Kelly (Lohan) on a supernatural, romantic journey of self-discovery. “She’s been ghostwriting for the writer she works for and she’s hopelessly in love with him, and she’s expecting him to love her back,” Lohan tells Tudum. But when reciprocation proves elusive, she takes matters into her own hands — only to find that romantic fantasies don’t always hold up to the harsh light of reality.

“It’s a nice story of luck and love and confidence,” Lohan says about the film, the first of her two-picture creative partnership with Netflix. Read more about Irish Wish below. And remember, be careful what you wish for.

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What is Irish Wish about?

When the love of her life gets engaged to her best friend, Maddie puts her feelings aside to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the pair are set to marry, Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love and finds herself in an alternate reality where a chance encounter shows her that sometimes you need to be careful who you wish for. With her dream seeming to come true, Maddie soon realizes that her real soulmate is someone else entirely.

Lohan is no stranger to the romantic comedy genre — the film’s humor, and especially its emphasis on physical comedy, was the reason she felt drawn to the project. Still, Irish Wish felt like an exciting new challenge for the actor and executive producer, a chance to showcase a different side of herself as a performer. “Maddie’s [one of the only] characters that I’ve played [who’s] a woman on her own making her way in the world,” she says. “We shaped her in a way that she was a bit more insecure in the beginning, and then she grows throughout the movie, and by the end, she really comes into her own.”

Maddie’s journey to independence and self-love resonated deeply with Lohan, who hopes audiences will feel seen in the same way she did. “It’s important to put yourself first and know your worth,” she says. “If you know you deserve better, go for it and get it.”

Lohan describes a convivial, friendly set — she and Curry bonded on- and off-screen, planning dinners, spa days, and movie nights. (“We watched Paranormal Activity,” Lohan says.)

Curry plays Heather, whom the actor describes as “that classic best friend who’s always going to be there for you, tell it to you straight, but is there to have a good time and laugh and carry on and create memories.”

“It was great working with Lindsay,” Curry says. “She’s the ultimate professional, and it’s one of those situations where when they yell ‘action’ and she gets going, you kind of get lost in the scene and forget what you’re doing because you just want to watch her. That was probably the biggest struggle on set, you forget you’re there to work and not to watch!”

Curry adds: “I wanted to be a part of this story because, for one, I love classic rom-coms and this is just the epitome of that. I’m excited to be a part of something I hope will become a classic staple in people’s households that they’ll watch more than once. I also got to do it with my friend, and who doesn’t want to work with their friend?”

Speleers echoes Curry in his praise for his co-star. “This world, this sphere of filmmaking comes very naturally for [Lindsay Lohan],” he tells Tudum. “She has a great approach to the work and is very much in tune with her comedic bones. This was my first out and out rom-com, and to team up with Lindsay and film in the stunning Republic of Ireland felt like the perfect way to venture into this genre.”

In fact, the romantic comedy marked a welcome change of pace for Speleers, who’d just finished filming an intense character arc as Rhys Montrose in You’s fourth season. “It was quite the adjustment jumping into James’ shoes after playing Rhys,” he says. “James is like the straight line through the film — he has a dry wit, if not somewhat sarcastic at times. But this comes from a good place; he’s curious about the world and people, and I felt that he’s a real observer. I found him to be very comfortable in himself. He’s certainly not as intense as some of the individuals I’ve played recently.”

Get to know the cast of “Irish Wish” here.