Lisa Ann Walter feels ‘safe' first time in acting career

Lisa Ann Walter, after impressing her fans in the 1998 Parent Trap remake is coming back to Hollywood in different roles.

She revealed it simultaneously while announcing the renewal of the fourth season of Abbott Elementary which has made her feel safe for the first time in her acting career.

Lisa who is known for her character Chessy in Parent Trap said to People Magazine, “Just because you're in a movie doesn't mean you're rich.”

“I wasn't a star. I was the woman that made you cry in The Parent Trap and you're still looking for a job the next week,” Walter explained.

She continued, “So honestly, feeling safe? The season four pickup of Abbott.”

Lisa shared with the publication that the earnings from her role as teacher Melissa Schemmenti in the hit ABC sitcom made her able to afford her first family vacation.

“I had not been able to afford taking my kids on a vacation outside of taking them to the San Diego Zoo, or to go skiing locally. This was the first time I was able to have everybody go on a trip.”

She wanted to take her children on European tours the way she got the chance in her childhood, and said, “We traveled all over the place to all the countries in Europe, just soaking up everything — museums and all the beauty of these countries,” the Maryland native recalls.

While sharing her memories from her childhood tour, “I'm so lucky that I have a visceral memory of the Sistine Chapel and what that looks like and feels like when you're in something and you think,” she said.

Walter started her career after studying drama by writing stand-up comedy after her sonJordan's birth and after five weeks of her daughter’s birth she hit the road again “because we had bills,” she said.

“I did a lot of driving back from gigs in upstate New York at 3:00 in the morning because I didn't want to spend $26 on a crappy hotel. I needed that money for milk.”

Lisa called herself “incredibly lucky” for the chance to star in The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan because, “So many people have such affinity for that character in that movie,” referring to her character, Chessy.

“And I always said, if I never did anything else, I was blessed to have that. I'm pretty sure I would get an In Memoriam at the Oscars,” she added.