Do you see the picture? It has been more than three decades since. Hayley Mills wooed fans in 1961’s The Parent TrapDisney remade the classic and made a box office smash.
The 1998 film, which starred Lindsay LohanAnnie James and Hallie are identical twins. The sisters reunited after attending the same Camp Walden camp, just before their 12th anniversary.
While the twins had no idea that the other existed — Annie lived in London with their mom, Elizabeth James (Natasha Richardson), and Hallie grew up in California with their dad, Nick Parker (Dennis Quaid) — they quickly bonded.
The girls had a lot of fun at camp but they eventually came up with a plan to swap places and hopefully reunite their parents. Hallie enlisted the help of the twins’ grandfather (Ronnie Stevens) and butler Martin (Simon Kunz) while getting to know her mum in England.
Annie, for her part, was tasked with breaking up their dad’s new relationship. Nick had fallen for Meredith Blake, a 26-year-old young woman.Elaine Hendrix) while her sister was away at camp, but luckily, Annie (who was pretending to be Hallie) had housekeeper Cheesy (Lisa Ann Walter) in her corner.
Two decades after The Parent TrapThe cast was able to reunite almost instantly after they hooked a new generation on twin-switch’s story line. During their chat, they remembered Richardson, their late costar, who had died in March 2009.
“Natasha had such an elegance and grace, and she was so maternal to me,” Lohan recalled in July 2020 while speaking with her former castmates and director Nancy Meyers.
Quaid added: “[She was]It was a person who was so kind and willing to help and passed on the joy of being able. It just made everything that much better.”
Hendrix only told the story in the next year. Us WeeklyMeredith’s villainous character has changed over the years. This reveals that many viewers now view Meredith as a badass woman who knows her worth.
“One of the keys to playing villains is that the characters, you never think of yourself as a villain, like, ever. Meredith Blake is no. Like to me, everyone else is catching up to everything I had already thought about her and that narrative Meredith thought about herself,” she said in June 2021. “So of course, she wasn’t the villain. Of course, she was the victim to these two little monster twins and their parents.”
Walter — who became real-life BFFs with Hendrix despite their characters hating each other — exclusively told UseIn April 2022, she announced that she would gladly team up with the entire cast to make a sequel. (Yes, Meredith Blake would need to make a return.
“I think it would be really fun if we were pursuing the story [of Chessy and Martin]. Because people all the time are like, ‘Why is there not a 2? This is not a remake. Parent Trap where the Lindsay character grows up and they’re twins and they have to get Martin and Chessy back together,” Walter revealed. “People will come up with story ideas like that. … And of course [I’d love if] somehow Meredith is involved just because I would die to do another version of working with Elaine in those roles.”
She added: “My best friend is Elaine and we kind of got hit at the 20-year reunion mark [with new fans] because of the fact that they air it so frequently and new generations find it.”
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