Lindsay Lohan is ready to bring on the dramatics.
In her cover story for Elle’s 2025 summer issue, Lohan opened up about starring in Count My Lies, a drama that’s in development at Hulu and based on a novel by Sophie Stava. The role will mark the actress’s first scripted TV series.
“I love the book. But when I was reading it, I had to put it down for a day because I was like, ‘I’m stressed now,’’ Lohan said in the conversation with Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman. “But I liked that. It’s going to be nice to do something different.”
The project is also different given that she doesn’t have a romantic interest, Lohan said. “I was talking to the writers and showrunners yesterday and told them, ‘I don’t know if you realize, but this is the first time where I don’t have to have a romantic interest, where I don’t have to kiss someone at the end of the movie.’ Which is so refreshing—to not have to be that girl for once.”
Count My Lies centers on compulsive liar Sloane Caraway, who bluffs her way into a job as a nanny for couple Violet and Jay Lockhart.
“It seems she’s finally landed her dream job,” the show’s logline reads. “But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode — with potentially catastrophic consequences for all.” Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Lohan is set to play Violet Lockhart.
Count My Lies comes from 20th Television and former This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger who are writing and will executive produce via their Walk-Up Company, which has an overall deal at 20th TV. Lohan and The Walk-Up Company’s Scott Morgan also exec produce and author Stava is a producer.
When discussing what kind of roles she’d like to pursue, Lohan suggested a “dark comedy like Mean Girls.”
She explained, “That kind of meaty, good, funny movie—a smart comedy. Not a rom-com, just a straightforward funny movie. I’m excited to be doing this drama. I’d love to work with some dream directors.”
She named Quentin Tarantino, Julianne Moore, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as people she’d “love to work with.”
“I don’t know why I’ve never played her daughter. Maybe now I’d be her younger sister,” Lohan said of Moore. Meanwhile of De Niro and Pacino, she said it would interesting doing “something Sopranos-y, since I am Italian.”
After a hiatus, Lohan has returned to the spotlight with her multiple acting roles. Lohan credited Netflix for being the reason she was able to return. “It was really Netflix. And I was manifesting it. During COVID, I was like, ‘I want to work with Netflix.’ I kept writing it in my journal and saying it. And then that’s what happened. I was like, ‘Oh, it’d be nice to do three films with them, and then see where that goes. And then I definitely want to do my first feature back with Disney.’ So I manifested that, and I’m manifesting this movie now,” she said.
Lohan starred in the Netflix holiday films Falling for Christmas (2022), Irish Wish (2024) and The Little Secret (2024). And she’s reprising her role as Anna in Disney’s Freakier Friday, out Aug. 8.
“I always want to make movies like that—things that make people happy and bring people together. I love making movies for that reason—for people to escape and find something that they can take into their own life and realize everything’s going to be okay. But with Netflix, I was like, ‘Okay, now we need to be thinking about other stuff.’ I can’t do movies like these forever,” Lohan said.