Lisa Ann Walter got emotional talking about Lindsay Lohan’s success after the two recently crossed paths at the Disney Upfront presentation, saying, “I’m going to cry.” Walter said the reunion with her former The Parent Trap costar felt “magic,” and added that she is “so proud of the woman she's become and how happy she is.”
Walter said she does not see Lohan often because the actress lives most of the year in Dubai, has a husband and a baby, and stays busy. “We talk sometimes on social media,” Walter said, describing the reunion as a reminder of how far Lohan has come since the pair worked together in Disney’s 1998 reimagining of The Parent Trap, where Walter played Chessy and Lohan played the twin girls.
The moment carried extra weight because it came as Lohan’s comeback keeps widening. She restarted her life in Dubai before returning to film work in three Netflix movies — Falling for Christmas, Irish Wish and Our Little Secret — and has also taken on a role in Hulu’s adaptation of the novel Count My Lies, alongside Kit Harington and Shailene Woodley. Walter said Lohan gave her an update on what is coming next and that one of those projects looks promising. “She's doing a show which, by the way, looks really good,” Walter said. “Janelle James and I both saw the little promo for it and went ‘Oh, that's good.’”
That praise fits the picture others around Lohan have described in recent months. Jamie Lee Curtis said in a cover story last year that Lohan moved to Dubai to find a calm and quiet place, away from the pace of New York and Los Angeles, and said the move impressed her. Elaine Hendrix, who reunited with Lohan for a Freakier Friday cameo, said Lohan now has a “full” life and that they are staying in touch more than they have before.
Walter has been part of the growing chatter about a possible The Parent Trap sequel, too. At the 2025 Emmys, she and Hendrix said a sequel was potentially in the works after Lohan had called Disney to help get the idea off the ground, according to Walter and Hendrix. Walter also said she saw Lohan at the Freakier Friday movie premiere last summer, another sign that the bond from 1998 has not disappeared, even as Lohan’s life has changed completely.
For Walter, the point was less nostalgia than admiration. “It was magic to see her. I'm going to cry!” she said. In a year when Lohan’s comeback has moved from curiosity to momentum, that may be the clearest measure of where she stands now: not as a former child star looking back, but as a working actress with a family, a base in Dubai and a next chapter already in motion.
