The actress recalled encouraging her mom to watch 'The Parent Trap' in hopes of her parents "getting back together"

As a Parent Trap superfan, Margaret Qualley had a dreamlike encounter when her mother Andie MacDowell started dating one of the film's stars, Dennis Quaid.

The entertainer, in a meeting with Harper's Market, enjoyed the 1998 Lindsay Lohan film even a youngster she would urge MacDowell to watch it with expectations of her mother reuniting with father Paul Qualley.

MacDowell, 65, shares little girls Margaret and Rainey in addition to child Justin with ex Paul, whom she separated in 1999.

"I would let my mother know the amount I cherished The Parent Trap and be like, 'We ought to watch it. It's a truly brilliant film. They go with a ton of good choices in that film,' " said Margaret, presently 28.

In any case, Margaret got a remarkable shock when MacDowell started dating her costar from 2001's Supper with Companions, Quaid, who likewise played the dad in The Parent Trap.

"She returns home and she's like, 'Margaret, I know the amount you love The Parent Trap … ' And I was like, 'Better believe it?' and holding up eagerly, trusting my folks were reuniting," Margaret told Harper's Market.

"And afterward in strolls Dennis Quaid — her new sweetheart," she proceeded. "I wasn't living in Hollywood; I was living in an ordinary rural town. However at that point I would have these 'What on earth?' minutes."

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Margaret recently talked about her genuine Parent Trap association while on The Late Show back in 2019.

"Being an offspring of separation, I very stuck onto The Parent Trap. I like the two forms, yet I was especially attracted to the Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid variant," she said at that point.

"I would sort of constantly be like, 'Hello, folks, I couldn't say whether you've seen The Parent Trap, yet things turned out lovely extraordinary for them, right?" Margaret reviewed of the film's plot, about twins arranging their isolated guardians to revive their sentiment and reunite. "'I realize you all got separated, however have you seen The Parent Trap? They all are truly cheerful toward the end! What do you all think?' "

Margaret said she would "hammer" that feeling in with her mother, expecting the film to reflect her own loved ones. She said she was "stunned" when she figured out MacDowell was dating Quaid.

She kidded that her mother "truly misjudged" what she planned to occur by upholding for Parent Trap — and faulted herself for the result.

"I was certain that it was all my shortcoming and I had wished this into fulfillment. I assumed total liability," she said.