Lindsay Lohan and Kit Harington Are in a Movie Together and the Internet Cannot Process It

Lindsay Lohan and Kit Harington are confirmed to be starring in a new film together. Here is the specific project and why this pairing is producing the internet reaction it is.

Just Jared's April 3 confirmation that Lindsay Lohan and Kit Harington are both attached to a new film project produced the specific quality of internet reaction that unexpected celebrity castings generate when the two names in question occupy very different places in the cultural imagination and whose pairing creates an immediate and involuntary comparative narrative.

Lindsay Lohan, 39, whose career trajectory from Disney child star to tabloid crisis to remarkably successful rehabilitation arc — culminating in the Netflix romantic comedies that restored her to mainstream audience goodwill without requiring any pretence that her earlier years had been uncomplicated — is at a specific career moment where she is genuinely valuable as a cast member again. Her return to family-friendly entertainment produced commercially significant streaming numbers for Netflix.

Kit Harington, 39, whose primary cultural identity remains Jon Snow from 'Game of Thrones' despite a career that has included significant theatre work and film roles that haven't generated the same recognition, is at a specific career moment where the 'Game of Thrones' legacy both defines and constrains him. The specific challenge of finding a post-Jon Snow identity is one that several of his former castmates are navigating simultaneously and with varying degrees of success.

For the film: specific details about its premise and production are limited to the confirmation of their involvement. The specific casting combination — two actors of similar age whose cultural profiles are almost diametrically different — creates the specific comedic or dramatic pairing potential that interesting casting decisions always have.

For the internet's specific inability to process: the Venn diagram of 'Lindsay Lohan fan' and 'Kit Harington fan' has a smaller overlap than almost any other casting combination of comparable name recognition, which is precisely the quality that makes the pairing interesting.