In 1998, Elaine Hendrix played arguably the most hated woman in film, The Parent Trap ’s Meredith Blake — a stunning publicist who posed the only true threat to identical twins Hallie and Annie Parker (Lindsay Lohan)’s scheme to reunite their parents. And while millennials have re-evaluated Hendrix’s character in recent years, the actor says she always loved being the villain.

“I’ve played many villains in my life,” she says. “I think it’s the eyebrows and blonde hair, and I just give the attitude. To me, that’s the juicy role. Look at all I got to do in The Parent Trap . I got to have a lizard on me and be shoved into the water in a raft. In a scene that got cut, I had to click the [camping] sticks and fall down.”

Hendrix, 54, turned 28 in 1998, just a couple months after T

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