Dennis Quaid has reflected on working with Natasha Richardson on The Parent Trap, days before the 17th anniversary of her tragic death.
Dennis Quaid’s heart “breaks every time” he thinks of his The Parent Trap co-star Natasha Richardson.
The 71-year-old actor reflected on the late “incredible” actress just days before the 17th anniversary of the 45-year-old star’s tragic death – bleeding between the skull and brain following a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada, on March 18, 2009.
Appearing on the latest episode of the Out of Order podcast, Dennis admitted: “My heart breaks every time.
“Natasha, she was just an incredible person and amazing.”
The Parent Trap saw Elizabeth James (Natasha) rekindle her romance with her ex-husband Nick Parker (Dennis) after their identical twin daughters, Hallie and Annie (both played by Lindsay Lohan), met at a summer camp and they switched places to get their parents back together.
And Dennis adored every second of working with Natasha.
He added: “If there’s anybody I’d wanna work with again, it’d be her.
“She was a great person, besides being an amazing actor to work with. She really was. And the way she went was very sad. Just a little accident on a ski slope.”
Dennis credited Natasha for bringing such magic to the 1998 Disney family-comedy film.
He explained: “She had a charm to her, and, like I said, just the relationship with her own kids, which she brought also to the set, and there was just something magical about her. She’s just present to when you’re working with her. I really miss her.”
And Dennis is proud to have worked on The Parent Trap.
He reflected: “There’s a whole generation and continues to be more generations, actually, of kids that were eight years old at the time, a couple of years later, who saw the movie 42 times on VHS, and their kids rented it with their kids now, and watch it 42 times.
“So, it’s turned out to be, probably, the most-watched film, I think, of anything I’ve ever done.”
After her divorce from filmmaker Robert Fox, now 73, in 1992, after two years of marriage, Natasha met actor Liam Neeson as she performed in the play Anna Christie on Broadway in 1993.
She and Liam, now 73, got married in 1994 at their home in Millbrook, New York, and the pair went on to welcome sons, actor Micheal Richardson, 30, in 1995, and Daniel Neeson, 29, in 1996.
Dennis Quaid remembers The Parent Trap co-star Natasha Richardson
