

"When it comes down to it, this movie just had some sort of stardust that was sprinkled on it," Quaid told Couric of the movie's enduring appeal. When Annie meets him masquerading as Hallie, she learns he is engaged to gold digger Meredith Blake. Quaid plays the divorced father of Annie James and Hallie Parker, the latter of whom resides with him in Napa, Calif., where he owns a vineyard. More recently, she's kept a lower profile, career-wise, notably starring in a docu-series for Oprah Winfrey and the OWN network in 2014 guest-starring on shows like Eastbound & Down and 2 Broke Girls and starring in the short-lived MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club. It was my first screen test, my first time in front of people like Nancy and Charles and on a sound stage," Lohan told Couric.Īfter The Parent Trap, Lohan went on to star in a number of films, including Herbie Fully Loaded, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Freaky Friday. "I was so young, and it was just so fresh for me. The film premiered when Lohan was just 12 years old.

Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures/Photofest GettyImagesīefore Lindsay Lohan was Cady Heron in Mean Girls, her role in the 1998 classic playing the adorable redheaded twins, Annie and Hallie, brought her critical acclaim and commercial success. Below, read on to see what the cast has been up to in the years since the movie hit theaters July 20, 1998. To celebrate the film's 22nd anniversary, Katie Couric reunited the stars, along with writer-director Nancy Meyers and writer-producer Charles Shyer, on her Instagram channel, where they talked about favorite scenes, lines and memories from making the movie. More than two decades later, fans still reminisce over the film that made Oreos dipped in peanut butter a childhood staple. The pair elaborately and successfully scheme to reunite their parents and rekindle their romance after they secretly switch places.Ī remake of the 1961 original Disney film starring Hayley Mills, which was an adaptation of an adaptation of Erich Kastner's novel Lottie and Lisa, the film was a box-office success and earned positive reviews, especially for its young star Lohan. The twins, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp. Twenty-two years ago, Lindsay Lohan made her film debut in the remake of The Parent Trap, playing identical twins Annie and Hallie.
