The Parent Trap’s Lisa Ann Walter Fought ‘Tooth and Nail’ Over Chessy’s Outfit: There Couldn’t Be ‘Sexual Energy’ With Dennis Quaid’s Character
usmagazine.comChessy’s wardrobe from The Parent Trap is still recreated by devoted fans more than 20 years later, but Lisa Ann Walter wasn’t exactly thrilled to wear the now iconic getup.“[Director] Nancy Meyers is warm, loving, and mother-like.
But she also has an incredible sense of style. And she was very clear about what everybody’s look was,” Walter, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly. “Elaine [Hendrix’s] look, everything was the cut of the dress and how many dresses she had to try on to find that perfect white one with the black hat where she raises her head.
All of that was very, very thought out. And the kind of beiges that Natasha [Richardson] wore. She was very hands-on on all of that and including mine.
I’m gonna be honest. I will cop to it when I’m a jerk. I was fighting that big wardrobe tooth and nail.”‘Parent Trap’ Campers: Where Are They Now?For Walter, it was the bagginess of the pants, purple top and denim button-down that she disliked. “She was the director and I wasn’t like, ‘I don’t wanna wear this.’ I was just like, ‘You can’t see my waist.’ And I’ll tell you why,” she said. “My whole life I was the heavy kid in school.
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