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Parent Trap star Elaine Hendrix questions if Meredith Blake is a villain: 'My whole career, I’ve defended' her

'The Parent Trap' actress Elaine Hendrix defends Meredith Blake and questions whether the iconic character is really a villain: 'My whole career, I've defended Meredith Blake.'

Maybe The Parent Trap's iconic antagonist Meredith Blake didn't deserve that brutal breakup...or the lizard crawling into her mouth...or being set adrift in the middle of a lake on an air mattress, after all. Actress Elaine Hendrix, who played the prickly publicist engaged to Nick ( Dennis Quaid), the father of mischievous twins Hallie and Annie ( Lindsay Lohan), in the 1998 Disney classic, tells Entertainment Weekly she's not so sure that Blake was all that bad in the first place. Though her demeanor wasn't the most pleasant throughout the film, she suffered mercilessly at the hands of Hallie and Annie's pranks, which included setting sail to Blake's aforementioned air mattress, putting a lizard inside her water bottle, and ultimately pushing her to the point of an emotional break that forced Blake to ask Nick to choose between her or his daughters.

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