Chessy from parent trap7/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You kept the twins’ secret and you made me feel like if you were in my life, I would have been loved.’”Īs an only child of divorce, and a queer kid, this rings true to me. “Especially,” she continues, “from kids who in those years felt a little … like their lives were not as safe, or they weren’t as accepted, like, kids from the LGBTQ2S+ community still write me now and say, ‘You made me feel accepted. She says that she still receives comments disclosing that watching this movie makes people feel safe. In a recent interview on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Walter revealed, as she’s done in many other interviews, the depth of love that ’90s kids (now, I suppose, adults) have for The Parent Trap, and specifically, Chessy. But The Parent Trap remains a comfort watch for a generation of ’90s queers. And by god, it’s true what they (Fleetwood Mac) say: even children get older, and I’m getting older too. The movie that made Lindsay Lohan (welcome back, we missed you!) also made me. ![]() If you didn’t religiously return to your local home video rental store and wear down their copy of The Parent Trap as a kid, we’re not the same. Walter herself certainly won’t have that-her Twitter bio still carries the tag: #ChessyForever, referring, of course, to the famously beloved nanny in the 1998 Disney classic The Parent Trap, which will soon celebrate its 25th anniversary. But let us not forget-especially those of us who are ’90s kids-the origin of our adoration for Walter. Actress Lisa Ann Walter is in fashion nowadays, with a wealth of well-deserved love for her latest character, a fiery Italian with a spiky facade and the biggest of hearts named Melissa Schemmenti, on the critically acclaimed ABC mockumentary Abbott Elementary. ![]()
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