Dennis Quaid is looking back at The Parent Trap and praising Lindsay Lohan for her acting abilities at such a young age.
Lohan played twins Annie and Hallie in the 1998 film, and during a screen test, Quaid said he believed the roles were being played by two girls.
“She was 11, and I did the screen test with her,” Quaid told Out of Order. “I thought there was two people myself. Because she just went right into this English accent.”
Quaid called Lohan “the most gifted child actor, or actor, that I think I’ve ever worked with.”
Nancy Meyers directed The Parent Trap in her directorial debut. The film was a remake of the 1961 film starring Hayley Mills, based on Erich Kästner’s 1949 German children’s novel Lisa and Lottie (Das doppelte Lottchen).
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The Parent Trap, which was Lohan’s breakout film, follows identical twins who were separated at birth and meet by chance at a summer camp. They decide to work together to reunite their divorced parents, played by Quaid and Natasha Richardson.
In the same podcast, Quaid remembered his late co-star, Natasha Richardson, who died in 2009 following a skiing accident. The actor called Richardson “an incredible person” and added, “”If there’s anybody I’d want to work with again, it would be her. She was a great person, besides being an amazing actor to work with. She really was.”
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