‘Parent Trap' stars Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix and Lisa Ann Walter reunite at ‘Freakier Friday' premiere

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The 'Freakier Friday' red carpet wasn't Camp Walden, but it sure felt like it.
'Parent Trap' stars Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix and Lisa Ann Walter staged a mini reunion at the world premiere of Disney's long-awaited 'Freaky Friday' sequel in LA on Tuesday.
The trio starred in Disney's 1998 version of 'The Parent Trap,' a remake of the original 1961 film.
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10 Lohan, Hendrix and Walter reunited at the world premiere of Disney's 'Freakier Friday.'
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Lohan, 39, famously played twins Hallie Parker and Annie James — separated at birth and reunited at summer camp, where they team up to switch places in an attempt to bring their divorced parents, Nick Parker (Dennis Quaid) and Elizabeth James (the late Natasha Richardson), back together.
Walter, 61, portrayed Nick's feisty housekeeper, Chessy, while Hendrix, 54, took on the role of Meredith Blake, the girls' gold-digging soon-to-be stepmother.
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10 Lohan starred as twins Hallie Parker and Annie James in 1998's 'The Parent Trap.'
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10 Walter portrayed Chessy, while Hendrix took the role of Meredith Blake.
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Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet, Lohan, who was just 12 when the film was released, said she 'still feels like a little girl' around her former costars.
'When you spend so much time with people on sets, and also when you're so young and you grow up with these people, you experience real life with them as well,' the 'Mean Girls' star told the outlet. 'And when you stay in contact, which is the beautiful thing, you feel like you're just always together, in a way.'
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Meanwhile, Hendrix and Walter gushed to The Hollywood Reporter about reuniting with Lohan — nearly 27 years after 'The Parent Trap' hit theaters.
10 Lohan, Hendrix and Walter at the 'Freakier Friday' premiere.
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Hendrix, who makes a cameo in 'Freakier Friday,' told the outlet that teaming up with Lohan again 'was a trip.'
'I hadn't seen her since she was a little girl… I had a special inside window into her that no one else did,' she said. '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.'
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10 Hendrix makes a cameo in 'Freakier Friday.'
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She continued, '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.'
Walter, for her part, said she kept catching herself looking at Lohan on the red carpet.
'The light that's coming out of her now, as a mom and a grown woman, is so beautiful,' she explained. 'She just looks so happy. This is wonderful.'
10 Walter as feisty housekeeper Chessy in 'The Parent Trap.'
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Tuesday's premiere, however, was all about the sequel to another one of Lohan's hit Disney films, 2003's 'Freaky Friday.'
The original movie, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis, follows a mother and daughter — Tess and Anna Coleman, played by Curtis and Lohan, respectively — who magically switch bodies and must navigate each other's lives to understand one another better.
The sequel, 'Freakier Friday,' adds Anna's daughter, Harper Coleman (Julia Butters), and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Lily Davies (Sophia Hammons), to the mix.
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10 Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reunite in 'Freakier Friday.'
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10 The cast of 'Freakier Friday' at the world premiere on Tuesday.
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Notably returning for the follow-up film is Chad Michael Murray, who played the original movie's love interest, Jake.
Two of Murray's three children, whom he shares with actress Sarah Roemer, made a rare appearance on the red carpet.
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The 'One Tree Hill' alum told People that the day before filming 'Freakier Friday,' he showed his kids the original film, even though he usually doesn't show them his work.
10 Murray's children made a rare appearance on the 'Freakier Friday' red carpet.
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10 Murray returns as Jack in 'Freakier Friday.'
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'We sat down and watched it, and I just remember them picking on me,' he told the outlet. ''Dad, what is wrong with your hair?' and 'Dad, you can't sing. What is going on?''
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He added, 'They were embarrassed for me, as they should have been.'
'Freakier Friday' hits theaters on August 8.