Watch: Elaine Hendrix Reminisces on "The Parent Trap" & Lindsay LohanWhen putting together the upcoming Freaky Friday sequel, director Nisha Ganatra had a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. Not content with having Lindsay Lohan simply reunite with costar Jamie Lee Curtis in Freakier Friday-August's follow-up coming 22 years after the OG smash-Ganatra reached out to her longtime pal Elaine Hendrix to see if she was up for a bit of a reunion. "I've done many projects with her," Hendrix explained to E! News' Will Marfuggi at the film's July 22 New York City premiere. "So she texted me and she's like, 'Hey, wanna come play-' and I said, 'Absolutely. Where do I gotta show up and when?'" So 27 years after Hendrix faced off with Lohan (who famously starred as separated-at-birth twins Annie and Hallie) as the iconic villain of 1998's The Parent Trap, she shot a cameo in Freakier Friday as a magazine editor that is featuring one of the pop stars Lohan's Anna Coleman mentors. photos17 Secrets About Freaky Friday Revealed"I have such a specific connection to her," Hendrix noted of Lohan, "but she's not that little girl anymore. She's grown up. So it was like, 'I know you, but oh wait-you're different now.' So getting to reconnect with her was so nice." Working on the body-swapping comedy meant, "We got to have time to reminisce on set, and to play little games, and just catch up," Hendrix noted. "It was great." In other words, they've come a long way from when Hendrix's Meredith Blake-the prickly publicist set to wed Hallie's father Nick (Dennis Quaid)-snarled, "I promise I will make your lives miserable from the day I say 'I do.'" With Lohan based in Dubai with husband Bader Shammas and their 2-year-old son Luai, "We both have full lives," Hendrix acknowledged to Entertainment Weekly, "but particularly through social media and texting, we're staying in touch, which is quite lovely. I'm so happy for her and where she is in her life." And Lohan is far from the only Parent Trap alum to be living out their happily ever after. Say yes to checking in on where the cast is now. Moviestore/Shutterstock; Cindy Ord / Stringer / GETTY IMAGESLindsay LohanAfter pulling double duty as twins Annie and Hallie in her first major role, Lindsay Lohan went on to become one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood with Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Just My Luck and A Prairie Home Companion. After two DUI arrests in 2007 and some time in rehab, Lohan left Hollywood behind-following a turn as Elizabeth Taylor in the 2012 Lifetime movie Liz & Dick and a role in 2013's The Canyons-and resettled in London before later moving to Dubai.
She then became an entrepreneur when she opened two nightclubs in Greece, ultimately staging another comeback with her own MTV reality show, Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, which ran for just one season (following in the footsteps of her notoriously shortlived reality series Lindsay on Oprah Winfrey's OWN). She also served as a judge on Australia's version of The Masked Singer. In April 2020, Lohan relaunched her music career, releasing the pop single "Back to Me," which came almost 16 years after the release of her debut album, Speak. And in 2022, she dove back into acting with her role in Netflix's Falling For Christmas, which she followed up in 2024 with Irish Wish. And then the Disney alum gave fans what they want by revisiting her Freaky Friday role for 2025's Freakier Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis. Another major life win for Lindsay? She welcomed her first child, Luai, in July 2023 with husband Bader Shammas. Walt Disney Pictures; Erik Voake / Stringer / GETTY IMAGESDennis QuaidHe owned a vineyard. He was a devoted father. He crossed the pond to win back his ex. Yeah, Nick was a total dreamboat. Dennis Quaid was already one of Hollywood's most in-demand leading men before The Parent Trap, and he continued to star in successful films, including Frequency, The Day After Tomorrow and Far From Heaven. Most recently, he starred in Paramount + series Happy Face and 2024's Oscar-nominated flick The Substance. He also fronts the band, Dennis Quaid and The Sharks, which has been together since 2000. Quaid split from Meg Ryan in 2000 after almost 10 years of marriage. They share one son, Jack. He would go onto marry real estate agent Kimberly Buffington in 2004, with the couple welcoming fraternal twins Thomas and Zoe in 2007. But after splitting twice in 2012 and reconciling in 2013, the pair called it quits for good in 2016, with their divorce being finalized in 2018.
After getting engaged in October 2019, Quaid married Laura Savoie in a secret elopement ceremony in June 2020 after initially postponing their April nuptials due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Following their engagement news, the actor defended his and Savoie's relationship and their 40-year age gap, insisting it "doesn't really bother" the couple. Walt Disney Pictures; Tibrina Hobson / Contributor / GETTY IMAGES Elaine HendrixGet the picture?! Elaine Hendrix portra