Lisa Ann Walter SaysParent Trap'sElaine Hendrix Nearly Kicked Her Out of Game Night at 2025 SAG Awards (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lisa Ann Walter’s competitive streak nearly got her kicked out of her friend and formerParent TrapcostarElaine Hendricks' home!While speaking to PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly on the2025 SAG Awardsred carpet, theAbbott Elementarystar, 61, opened up about how she related to her character Melissa Schemmenti’s antics regarding games or other competitions.“Personally, I’m extremely competitive,” she admitted. “I used to play with my best friend Elaine Hendricks, at her game night, and I got so bad that she told me I wouldn’t be invited back unless I cooled it.“In another instance, Walter recalled how she once wasn’t invited toQuestlove’s game night alongsideAbbott Elementarycreator,Quinta Brunson.“My feelings were very hurt. So if you’re listening, Quinta, I need to be invited to the next one. You know I like to win. Come on!” she joked.Calling her “my best friend in the world,” Walter tells PEOPLE about their friendship dynamic and how they try to support each other in the world of love.(L) Elaine Hendrix and Lisa Ann Walter.Araya Doheny/Getty; Neilson Barnard/GettySince starring in 1998’sThe Parent Trap, Walter and Hendrix have become great friends — despite the former’s game-night competitiveness.In August 2024, the actress called Hendrix her “best friend in the world” and opened up about their friendship dynamic and how they try to support each other in the world of love.“She’s beautiful and she’s charming and she’s funny as all get out. I love her dearly. She’s also a great caretaker and she’s single. So I look at her, I’m like, ‘You’re a cautionary tale,'” Walter said of Hendrix with a laugh. “I look at you and go, ‘You’re single. How is there hope for me?’ So she’s more fear factor.“She also revealed that she and Hendrix often look through each other’s dating apps and help each other pick their potential suitors.“She does send me her choices if either one of us are ever brave enough to go online and on the apps and look at guys,” Walter said. “She’ll say, ‘What about this guy?’ And, ‘I think that could be fun.’ But then we kind of talk each other out of it. So we’re not great in that way.“She added, “She is absolutely stunningly gorgeous, as we all know. She says it’s her vegan lifestyle. I’m like, your genetics played a part girl.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.SeePEOPLE’s full coverage of the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing on Netflix.

Lisa Ann Walter’s competitive streak nearly got her kicked out of her friend and formerParent TrapcostarElaine Hendricks’ home!

While speaking to PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly on the2025 SAG Awardsred carpet, theAbbott Elementarystar, 61, opened up about how she related to her character Melissa Schemmenti’s antics regarding games or other competitions.

“Personally, I’m extremely competitive,” she admitted. “I used to play with my best friend Elaine Hendricks, at her game night, and I got so bad that she told me I wouldn’t be invited back unless I cooled it.”

In another instance, Walter recalled how she once wasn’t invited toQuestlove’s game night alongsideAbbott Elementarycreator,Quinta Brunson.

“My feelings were very hurt. So if you’re listening, Quinta, I need to be invited to the next one. You know I like to win. Come on!” she joked.

Calling her “my best friend in the world,” Walter tells PEOPLE about their friendship dynamic and how they try to support each other in the world of love.

(L) Elaine Hendrix and Lisa Ann Walter.Araya Doheny/Getty; Neilson Barnard/Getty

Araya Doheny/Getty; Neilson Barnard/Getty

Since starring in 1998’sThe Parent Trap, Walter and Hendrix have become great friends — despite the former’s game-night competitiveness.

In August 2024, the actress called Hendrix her “best friend in the world” and opened up about their friendship dynamic and how they try to support each other in the world of love.

“She’s beautiful and she’s charming and she’s funny as all get out. I love her dearly. She’s also a great caretaker and she’s single. So I look at her, I’m like, ‘You’re a cautionary tale,'” Walter said of Hendrix with a laugh. “I look at you and go, ‘You’re single. How is there hope for me?’ So she’s more fear factor.”

She also revealed that she and Hendrix often look through each other’s dating apps and help each other pick their potential suitors.

“She does send me her choices if either one of us are ever brave enough to go online and on the apps and look at guys,” Walter said. “She’ll say, ‘What about this guy?’ And, ‘I think that could be fun.’ But then we kind of talk each other out of it. So we’re not great in that way.”

She added, “She is absolutely stunningly gorgeous, as we all know. She says it’s her vegan lifestyle. I’m like, your genetics played a part girl.”

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SeePEOPLE’s full coverage of the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, airing on Netflix.

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