Best of times? Not for Keira and Lindsay

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Keira Knightley and Lindsay Lohan have fallen out after the 20-year-old American actress pulled out of Keira's new film The Best Time Of Our Lives, a dramatic biopic of Welsh bard Dylan Thomas.

According to sources on set Lohan, right, who has just finished a spell in rehab, quit days before filming was due to start.

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Keira, left, whose mother Sharman Macdonald wrote the screenplay, is said to be 'furious' because she was instrumental in getting the Mean Girls star to play Thomas's wife Caitlin MacNamara.

The film tells the story of William Killick, who tried to kill Thomas because he believed he was having an affair with his wife, Vera, played by Keira.

Movie insiders predicted a box office hit because of the lesbian love scenes between Keira and Lindsay, who were also due to film a steamy threesome with the poet, played by Matthew Rhys.

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