Abbott Elementary star Lisa Ann Walter wants her best pal Elaine Hendrix (Freakier Friday, Dancing with the Stars) to have some of her ashes. The duo have been friends since working on The Parent Trap in 1997, and Lisa wants to stand by her “soulmate” forever.
In a joint interview with Us Weekly, she told Elaine, “I just want to be cremated and separated out a little bit, and some of it could be on the counter, like in the kitchen, where I keep my mom. And then some should be at your house. But I don’t want it scattered. Don’t scatter my damn ashes.”
Elaine replied: “I’m not scattering them, you’re coming with me!” Elsewhere, in the interview, the duo reflected on their enduring relationship – 28 years after Elaine and Lisa played rivals Meredith Blake and Chessy, respectively, in The Parent Trap.
Elaine defined their bond as “sisters” before Lisa said, “soulmates.” She clarified that their relationship is like being “married without the romance”, before she added: “A best friend who will help you move a body.”
The pair sat next to each other in the waiting room for their Parent Trap screen tests in 1997, and they immediately hit it off like a house on fire.
Asked when they realized there was a connection between them, Elaine noted, “I think from the beginning. We just got together and talked, talked, talked…” Lisa chimed in, “Elaine and I are both actors, so we access our emotions easily … We also have a rule that neither one of us can lose our s*** at the same time. Can you believe that? We trade off on who’s falling apart. “
Lisa then revealed, “We wrote a script together early on in our relationship. We were close, but when we got done writing that script, we were one. It was a girl buddy movie when they weren’t doing those. We were very much before the whole Bridesmaids.”
Elaine added, “That was, like, right after Parent Trap. As a matter of fact, if anybody wants to fund it…” Meanwhile, Lisa takes pleasure in people “responding” to her and Elaine’s decades-long friendship.
Lisa noted, “One of the things that is really gratifying about our long-term relationship is people responding to it. This is not new. We didn’t invent grown-ass female friendship. It’s necessary.
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