Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a red carpet reunion with two of her co-stars from her beloved 1998 movie The Parent Trap this week.
The 39-year-old was attending the premiere of her new film Freakier Friday, a sequel to her 2003 picture Freaky Friday led by her and Jamie Lee Curtis.
But while celebrating the follow-up to one of her fan favorite pictures, she also managed to give a tip of the hat to another one.
At age 12, Lindsay became a star in The Parent Trap playing long-separated twins who hatch a plan to reignite the romance between their divorced mother (Natasha Richardson) and father (Dennis Quaid).
Elaine Hendrix featured as the father’s gold-digging girlfriend, while Lisa Ann Walter also held a supporting role as his housekeeper.
Both Elaine, 54, and Lisa, 61, proudly posed alongside Lindsay at the Freakier Friday premiere at Hollywood’s iconic El Capitan Theater on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a red carpet reunion with her The Parent Trap co-stars Lisa Ann Walter (left) and Elaine Hendrix (right) at Tuesday’s Freakier Friday premiere in Hollywood
Lindsay was the image of showbiz glamour as she mingled at the event, decked out in a strapless bubblegum pink gown with a voluminous pleated skirt.
Accentuating her strikingly smooth complexion with makeup, she accessorized with a dazzling Lorraine Schwartz necklace for her latest red carpet.
Meanwhile Lisa cut a snappy figure in a monochrome pinstriped trouser suit, and Elaine slid into a white cocktail dress speckled with mirror work.
While on the red carpet, Lindsay shared that reuniting with Elaine and Lisa made her ‘still feel like a little girl sometimes,’ via Entertainment Tonight.
She observed that ‘when you spend so much time with people on sets, and also when you’re so young you grow up with these people, you experience real life with them as well, and when you stay in contact, which is the beautiful thing, yeah, you feel like you’re just always together in a way.’
‘It was a lovely reunion,’ Lisa told Extra, saying Lindsay ‘looked genuinely happy, which you know, in Hollywood you can kind of roll the dice on whether or not people are shining you on. But she’s just, I think, a version of who she was as a little girl, and lovely and happy, and it’s just wonderful to see her shine like this.’
Elaine, who has a cameo in Freakier Friday, revealed that she stayed at Lisa’s home while filming her portion of Lindsay’s new movie in secret.
Lisa gushed that she was ‘so proud’ of Elaine, whom she called her ‘bestie’ while speaking on the red carpet to The Hollywood Reporter. ‘I’m proud of the work she does and how she looks and the person that she is.’
At age 12, Lindsay became a star in The Parent Trap playing twins who hatch a plan to reunite their divorced parents, played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson
Elaine Hendrix featured as the father’s gold-digging girlfriend
Lisa Ann Walter also held a supporting role as his housekeeper
Both Elaine, 54, and Lisa, 61, proudly posed alongside Lindsay at the Freakier Friday premiere at Hollywood’s iconic El Capitan Theater on Tuesday
‘I would take Lisa with me everywhere if I could,’ said Elaine. ‘I would put her in my pocket and I would take her everywhere because I always feel safer and more loved and more well-fed when I am with her.’
She reflected that working with Lindsay again on their upcoming movie ‘was a trip,’ revealing that ‘I hadn’t seen her since she was a little girl, except growing up in the press like the rest of the world saw her.’
Elaine added: ‘But I had a special inside window into her that no one else did, and so when I came and reunited with her, there was first and foremost a real sense of familiarity about her. And then there was also like: “Oh, you’re a whole different person now!” She’s had a whole life since I had seen her.
‘So it was a real mixed bag, all these emotions, all these great things just came flooding in, and I was so happy and proud and it was so fun and just the best.’
Lisa pointed out the change she had noticed in Lindsay since the Mean Girls star welcomed her two-year-old son Luai with her financier husband Bader Shammas, whom she lives with in Dubai, where he holds a position at Credit Suisse.
Lindsay was the image of showbiz glamour as she mingled at the event, decked out in a strapless bubblegum pink gown with a voluminous pleated skirt
Accentuating her strikingly smooth complexion with makeup, she accessorized with a dazzling Lorraine Schwartz necklace for her latest red carpet
Meanwhile Lisa cut a snappy figure in a monochrome pinstriped trouser suit, and Elaine slid into a white cocktail dress speckled with mirror work
‘I keep finding myself looking at her when she comes over or walks into my view,’ said Lisa: ‘and just the light that’s coming out of her now as a mom and a grown woman is so beautiful. She just looks so happy, which is wonderful.’
The original Freaky Friday was based on a novel by Mary Rodgers, the daughter of The Sound of Music and Oklahoma! composer Richard Rodgers.
Jamie Lee and Lindsay starred respectively as a mother and daughter who switch bodies, enabling each to develop a greater understanding of the other.
In the sequel, Lindsay’s character has a daughter and a stepdaughter-to-be, and the three of them – plus Jamie Lee’s character – wind up in a four-way body swap.
With a cast that includes Mandy Jacinto, Mark Harmon and Chad Michael Murray, the new film is slated for theatrical release on August 8.
