Lindsay Lohan told Disney CEO he should have paid her twice for ‘Parent Trap’

• Lindsay Lohan recalled a 1998 conversation about “The Parent Trap” with Michael Eisner when he was Disney’s CEO.
• She said he didn’t realize the twins in the film were both hers – prompting her to request a new payslip.
• “The Parent Trap” made six times its $15 million budget at the box office.

Lindsay Lohan said she told Michael Eisner, the former Disney executive, that he should have paid her twice to play the Parker twins in “The Parent Trap.”

In the 1998 film, Lohan plays Hallie and Annie Parker, twins who were separated as babies and grew up apart.

The film sees the sisters accidentally reunited at summer camp and they devise a plan to switch places in an attempt to get their parents back together.

Lohan appeared on Wednesday’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” where she recalled meeting Eisner at the premiere.

She said he asked where her twin was, apparently unaware that she was playing both.

She said: “I was so young, I don’t even know how I was going to say this, but I’ll never forget what I said. I said, ‘Well, you should have paid me double because it does I don’t have one.”

Lohan has not publicly disclosed how much she was paid for her dual roles in “The Parent Trap,” leaving it unclear how much her quirky request represented.

It was a tongue-in-cheek example of a more serious trend – actors feeling underpaid for their work in blockbuster films.

In August, Cate Blanchett also appeared on Andy Cohen’s chat show and said: “No one got paid anything” in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. She said: “I basically got free sandwiches and I have to keep my ears open.”

Glen Powell opened up about his own financial difficulties in May. He said he didn’t make “significant money” on “Top Gun: Maverick” and that his bank account was “depleted” while he waited for the film to be released during the pandemic.

“The Parent Trap” was successful for its time, making back its $15 million budget six times over at the box office after earning $92,000 worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.

It’s also one of the movies that propelled Lohan to stardom at a young age and led to work in other Disney projects like “Life Size” and “Freaky Friday.”

Lohan’s life was turbulent in the late 2000s and early 2010s due to drug use and partying, but her career has seen a resurgence thanks to projects like “Falling For Christmas” and “Irish Wish.”

The long-awaited sequel “Freakier Friday” with Jamie Lee Curtis is coming in 2025.

Elsewhere in the interview with Cohen, Lohan also said she would only be open to a “The Parent Trap” reboot if its director and co-writer Nancy Meyers was involved.

She said, “I mean, if Nancy Meyers was a part of it, yes. I would never say no to Nancy.”

It seems likely that Lohan would be a more expensive casting now — she earned a $500,000 salary for her brief role in the “Mean Girls” musical.