Lindsay Lohan is able to convey on the dramatics.
In her cowl story for Elle’s 2025 summer issue, Lohan opened up about starring in Rely My Lies, a drama that’s in improvement at Hulu and primarily based on a novel by Sophie Stava. The position will mark the actress’s first scripted TV sequence.
“I really like the e book. However once I was studying it, I needed to put it down for a day as a result of I used to be like, ‘I’m burdened now,’’ Lohan mentioned within the dialog with Saturday Evening Reside’s Chloe Fineman. “However I appreciated that. It’s going to be good to do one thing completely different.”
The challenge can be completely different on condition that she doesn’t have a romantic curiosity, Lohan mentioned. “I used to be speaking to the writers and showrunners yesterday and informed them, ‘I don’t know if you happen to notice, however that is the primary time the place I don’t should have a romantic curiosity, the place I don’t should kiss somebody on the finish of the film.’ Which is so refreshing—to not should be that lady for as soon as.”
Rely My Lies facilities on compulsive liar Sloane Caraway, who bluffs her manner right into a job as a nanny for couple Violet and Jay Lockhart.
“It appears she’s lastly landed her dream job,” the present’s logline reads. “However little does Sloane know, she’s simply entered a family brimming with secrets and techniques which might be about to blow up — with probably catastrophic penalties for all.” Sources inform The Hollywood Reporter Lohan is ready to play Violet Lockhart.
Rely My Lies comes from twentieth Tv and former This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger who’re writing and can government produce through their Stroll-Up Firm, which has an total deal at twentieth TV. Lohan and The Stroll-Up Firm’s Scott Morgan additionally exec produce and creator Stava is a producer.
When discussing what sort of roles she’d prefer to pursue, Lohan prompt a “darkish comedy like Imply Women.”
She defined, “That type of meaty, good, humorous film—a wise comedy. Not a rom-com, only a easy humorous film. I’m excited to be doing this drama. I’d like to work with some dream administrators.”
She named Quentin Tarantino, Julianne Moore, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as individuals she’d “like to work with.”
“I don’t know why I’ve by no means performed her daughter. Perhaps now I’d be her youthful sister,” Lohan mentioned of Moore. In the meantime of De Niro and Pacino, she mentioned it could fascinating doing “one thing Sopranos-y, since I’m Italian.”
After a hiatus, Lohan has returned to the highlight along with her a number of performing roles. Lohan credited Netflix for being the rationale she was in a position to return. “It was actually Netflix. And I used to be manifesting it. Throughout COVID, I used to be like, ‘I wish to work with Netflix.’ I saved writing it in my journal and saying it. After which that’s what occurred. I used to be like, ‘Oh, it’d be good to do three movies with them, after which see the place that goes. After which I undoubtedly wish to do my first characteristic again with Disney.’ So I manifested that, and I’m manifesting this film now,” she mentioned.
Lohan starred within the Netflix vacation movies Falling for Christmas (2022), Irish Want (2024) and The Little Secret (2024). And she or he’s reprising her position as Anna in Disney’s Freakier Friday, out Aug. 8.
“I all the time wish to make motion pictures like that—issues that make individuals blissful and convey individuals collectively. I really like making motion pictures for that motive—for individuals to flee and discover one thing that they will take into their very own life and notice all the things’s going to be okay. However with Netflix, I used to be like, ‘Okay, now we should be interested by different stuff.’ I can’t do motion pictures like these endlessly,” Lohan mentioned.