Lindsay Lohan: "I'm a serious actress"

Wayward actress Lindsay Lohan hopes that her new movie "I Know You Killed Me", will show the world that she is a serious actress - because she's fed up with her party animal reputation.

Lohan, who recently spent a month in the Wonderland rehab center in Beverly Hills, California has decided that she now wants her work, and not her lifestyle, to make the headlines.

And she believes that her performance as a kidnap and torture victim in I Know You Killed Me will help her achieve that aim.

She says, "I don't think there has been a role for an actress like this movie was for me in so long.

"At first I was like, 'I can't do this, I'm getting my legs cut off. I don't want to look like that in scenes, I want to look decent.' But that was just me being young and stupid.

"And I have my first sex scene in it, which I always said I wouldn't do. I wanted to do this movie so people can see that I'm a fucking actress and I've been doing it forever and it's about time people see that. It felt so good to really act. I just pray people won't rip me apart for it, and be negative.

"The thing with the press, and why they need to leave me the f**k alone for a little bit, is because I don't want that distracting from my work.

"I want to get a nomination. I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance."