Lisa Ann Walter Wants to Do a Parent Trap Remake with Lindsay Lohan and Have Her on Abbott Elementary (Exclusive)

Abbott Elementary School star Lisa Ann Walter wants to work with Lindsay Lohan again!

Walter, who starred with Lohan in the 1998 version The parent traptold PEOPLE at the NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday that there are two fun ways she and Lohan, 37, can work together.

“Yes, absolutely,” answers Walter (60) when asked if she would revive her A trap for parents character, Chessy. “I’d like to go back for another version of it — or if [Lohan] he wants to come on our show, and I’d love to.”

Walter stars as Philadelphia second grade teacher Melissa Schemmenti on the hit ABC series Abbott Elementary Schoolwhich won Outstanding Comedy Series at the NAACP Image Awards.

The actress and mother of four previously said she would “love” Lohan to play her red-haired cousin on the show. “I guess we’d have to make her a relative since we’re both redheads—since I’m a ‘redhead’ and she really is,” Walter said. Party tonight in January.

IN The parent trapLohan famously played Hallie Parker and Annie James, 11-year-old twins who meet by chance at summer camp after being separated at birth, while Walter played Hallie’s nanny.

Lindsay Lohan (left) and Lisa Ann Walter in 2005.

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If Lohan was a guest on Abbott Elementary Schoolwill join the acclaimed cast of the series, which has won four Emmys, including Outstanding Supporting Actor, since the series premieres in 2021.

Only at the Saturday ceremony, Abbott Elementary School creator and actress Quinta Brunson, who plays fellow teacher Janine Teagues, won best actress, while William Stanford Davis, who plays Mr. Johnson’s guardian, won outstanding supporting actor.

“I’m so happy that people recognize the talent that [Davis] is,” Walter tells PEOPLE. “He’s my neighbor, he’s my friend. We watch football together on the weekends.”

Walter described the entire cast as “super talent” and revealed how the show changed her career.

“It’s amazing that the audience loves us first of all, that the professors love us and the audience loves us, it’s great,” she says. “And then the critics and everyone in the business are so thrilled with our performance and what Quinta has put together.”

“For the first time in maybe my entire career, I have job security for a little bit longer anyway,” she adds. “And every day I have to go to work… with top talented people. There is no, I always say, no bum in the parking lot.”

Lisa Ann Walter at the NAACP Image Awards on March 16, 2024.

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The 2023 and 2024 cast were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and won the honor in 2023.

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On Saturday, Walter gave an insight into what a day is like on set.

“You go straight to hair and makeup and we usually share everything that happened over the weekend or the night before,” says Walter. “Sometimes there are people who are very quiet – Tyler [James Williams] — but we know he has to drink coffee, so leave him alone.”

“Sometimes Sheryl [Lee Ralph] comes in,” he adds, before imitating Ralph’s singing, “and goes, ‘I had the best time last night!’ It’s like you get a whole opera about what she did and it’s like we just start laughing and breaking up and it continues on set.”

Abbott Elementary SchoolThe 14-episode third season premiered on February 7.

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