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Elaine Hendrix Reminisces connected "The Parent Trap" & Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan has the groolest comebacks.
The histrion recalled an iconic back-and-forth with erstwhile Disney CEO Michael Eisner at the 1998 premiere of The Parent Trap after helium inquired astir her duplicate sister.
"I was truthful young," Lindsay, who was 12 astatine the time, explained connected Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Nov. 20. "I don't cognize however I thought to accidental this, but I'll ne'er hide what I said. I said, 'Well, you should've paid maine treble due to the fact that I don't person one!'"
After all, the 38-year-old played both identical twins Annie James and Hallie Parker, who conscionable for the archetypal clip portion attending the aforesaid summertime campy and effort to reunite their parents Nick (Dennis Quaid) and Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson).
She besides revealed that she would beryllium unfastened to a reboot if it was helmed by the 1998 movie's manager Nancy Meyers. As Lindsay simply enactment it, "I would ne'er accidental nary to Nancy."
She isn't the lone prima funny successful returning for Parent Trap 2. In fact, Lisa Ann Walter would beryllium much than blessed to reprise her role arsenic housekeeper Chessy.
"What we get online much than thing is kids that are present successful their 20s and 30s that say, 'You were our puerility and we grew up with you,'" she told E! News successful a associated interrogation with erstwhile costar Elaine Hendrix last February. "There is conscionable a existent longing for radical to consciousness bully and safe, and truthful immoderate movie similar that, yeah, let's bash it."
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Along with that comforting feeling, Lisa emphasized that the film’s entreaty transcends age.
"I deliberation that determination is simply a nostalgia [and] a longing for movies that are consciousness bully that besides are multi-generational," the 61-year-old continued. "Parent Trap besides was a romance and it appealed to grown people, to grown women, to radical that privation to spot a blessed ending aft thing is tragic and a household has divorced."
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Playing Chessy was particularly heartwarming erstwhile she saw her role's affirmative interaction connected young viewers.
"Starting retired with a movie arsenic large as The Parent Trap stuck with maine each the mode done the years,” Lisa explained, “and radical loving it and saying, 'As a cheery kid, you meant truthful overmuch to maine due to the fact that I felt similar I could travel retired to your character.’ If I bash thing other successful this business, to make characters that marque radical consciousness similar that, I'm good."
Now, work connected to spot wherever The Parent Trap stars are now.
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Lindsay Lohan
After pulling treble work arsenic twins Annie and Hallie successful her archetypal large role, Lohan went connected to go 1 of the biggest and brightest young stars successful Hollywood with Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Just My Luck and A Prairie Home Companion.
After attempting to signifier a comeback arsenic Elizabeth Taylor successful the 2012 Lifetime movie Liz & Dick and successful 2013's The Canyons, Lohan near Hollywood down and resettled successful London earlier aboriginal moving to Dubai.
She then became an entrepreneur erstwhile she opened 2 nightclubs successful Greece, yet staging different comeback with her ain MTV world show, Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, which ran for conscionable 1 play (following successful the footsteps of her notoriously shortlived world series Lindsay connected Oprah Winfrey's OWN). She besides served arsenic a justice connected Australia's mentation of The Masked Singer.
In April 2020, Lohan relaunched her euphony career, releasing the popular single "Back to Me," which came astir 16 years aft the merchandise of her debut album, Speak.
And successful 2022, she dove backmost into acting with her relation successful Netflix's Falling For Christmas, which she followed up successful 2024 with Irish Wish. And the Disney alum is giving fans what they privation by revisiting her Freaky Friday relation for an upcoming sequel with Jamie Lee Curtis.
Another large beingness triumph for Lindsay? She welcomed her archetypal child, Luai, successful July 2023 with hubby Bader Shammas.
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Dennis Quaid
He owned a vineyard. He was a devoted father. He crossed the pond to triumph backmost his ex. Yeah, Nick was a full dreamboat.
Quaid was already 1 of Hollywood's astir in-demand starring men earlier The Parent Trap, and helium continued to prima successful palmy films, including Frequency, The Day After Tomorrow and Far From Heaven. Most recently, helium starred successful Amazon's Goliath and Netflix's sitcom Merry Happy Whatever. He besides fronts the band, Dennis Quaid and The Sharks, which has been together since 2000.
Several years aft the film's release, Quaid divided from Meg Ryan aft astir 10 years of marriage. They stock 1 son, Jack. He would spell onto wed existent property cause Kimberly Buffington successful 2004, with the mates welcoming fraternal twins Thomas and Zoe in 2007. But aft splitting doubly in 2012 and reconciling successful 2013, the brace called it quits for bully successful 2016, with their divorcement being finalized successful 2018.
After getting engaged successful October 2019, Quaid married Laura Savoie in a concealed elopement ceremony successful June 2020 aft initially postponing their April nuptials owed to the Coronavirus pandemic. Following their engagement news, the actor defended his and Savoie's narration and their 40-year property gap, insisting it "doesn't truly bother" the couple.
And Dennis has consistently taken up tiny roles from The Long Game to a recurring relation connected the mini bid Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
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Elaine Hendrix
Get the picture?! Hendrix portrayed Meredith Blake, Nicky's young, blistery and bitchy fiancée, which came aft taking connected the mean miss relation successful Romy and Michele's High School Reunion successful 1997. What a legend!
Post-Parent Trap, Hendrix starred connected FX's Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and appeared connected 90210 and Anger Management. And successful 2019, Hendrix stepped into the iconic stilettos of Alexis Carrington for The CW's Dynasty reboot.
A immense carnal rights activist, Hendrix founded The Pet Matchmaker, an enactment that rescues animals and tries to find homes for them.
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Lisa Ann Walter
After playing Hallie's comic and caring nanny Chessy, Walter went connected to prima successful movies like Bruce Almighty, Shall We Dance? and War of Worlds, and she's made impermanent quality connected Grey's Anatomy, GLOW, The Odd Couple and different TV shows.
The stand-up comedian's memoir, which had the iconic title The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It's Behind Me, came retired successful 2011, and from past until 2014 she hosted The Fabulous Lisa Ann Walter Show, her ain speech vigor amusement connected KFI successful LA.
Despite playing rivals successful the film, Walter and Hendrix person remained adjacent friends, with Walter telling Vanity Fair, "Elaine is family. She knows each my kids, and we don't request anybody else. We person each other. Elaine's my sister now; I adopted her."
And now, Lisa Ann is champion known for her relation arsenic edgy teacher Melissa Schemmenti successful the Emmy-winning Abbott Elementary.
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Simon Kunz
After charming Chessy arsenic Martin, Elizabeth and Annie's beloved butler, Kunz went connected to prima successful deed UK bid Midsomer Murders, Sherlock and The Last Kingdom. Kunz besides had a tiny relation successful Captain America: The First Avenger.
More recently, he's had tiny roles in Jericho Ridge and Rose's War.
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Polly Holliday
Holliday ran a choky vessel astatine Camp Walden arsenic Marva Sr., but the histrion was known for her sassy crook connected the deed '70s sitcom Alice.
After The Parent Trap, the legend appeared films specified arsenic Stick It and The Heartbreak Kid, arsenic good arsenic popped up connected the tiny surface connected Home Improvement and The Client.
In 2000, Holliday was inducted into the Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame. She besides holds 4 Emmy nominations.
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Maggie Wheeler
C'mon, astir everyone knows Wheeler arsenic Janice, her iconic quality connected Friends. (She primitively auditioned for Monica!)
Wheeler, who played Marva Jr., the girl successful the mother-daughter duo who ran Camp Walden, has appeared connected countless TV shows, including ER, Friday Night Lights and Shameless, and has provided her vocal talents to Archer, the animated Batman beingness and 2019's The Addams Family.
She's has been joined to Daniel Borden Wheeler since 1990 and the mates has 2 children together.
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Nancy Meyers
One of Hollywood's astir palmy pistillate filmmakers, Meyers is 1 of the reigning rom-com queens.
As a director, writer and producer, she went connected to helm deed films similar What Women Want, Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday, It's Complicated (which earned a Golden Globe information for Best Picture: Musical oregon Comedy) and The Intern, inspiring location decor, manner and emotion beingness envy successful astir of them. She besides served arsenic a shaper connected Home Again successful 2017, which was written and directed by her daughter.
On Instagram, Meyers continuously shares behind-the-scenes tidbits from her deed films, and successful February 2020, she penned a Modern Love essay about her post-divorce relationship with ex-husband Charles Shyer that went viral. In 2023, she was successful the aboriginal stages of processing a rom com for Netflix, but the streamer ended up parting ways with the manager earlier the task was completed.
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Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Before she went connected to travel successful her celebrated mom's footsteps, penning and directing 2017's Home Again, a rom-com starring Reese Witherspoon, Meyers-Shyer often appeared successful her ma Nancy Meyers' films, including What Women Want and Father of the Bride. In The Parent Trap, she played 1 of Annie's campy co-horts.
Fun fact: Her sister's sanction is Annie, and Lohan's duplicate characters were named aft the siblings.
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Kat Graham
Bet you didn't cognize The Vampire Diaries prima had a tiny portion successful the movie, playing 1 of Annie's campy BFFs successful her archetypal large on-screen role. Graham aboriginal revealed to InStyle that she kept her campy garment from filming.
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Michael Lohan Jr.
That mislaid lad astatine campy who was really the lone lad astatine camp? He was played by Lohan's real-life small bro!
While helium went connected to look on Living Lohan, a world amusement that followed the celebrated fam, he's present a businessman aft graduating from Ithaca College. In 2017, helium joined Nina Ginsberg.
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