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Dennis Quaid will not shoot a sequel to “The Twins” with Lindsay Lohan

Although his co-stars Lindsay Lohan and Lisa Ann Walter have expressed their enthusiasm for a sequel to 1998's “The Twins,” Dennis Quaid isn't sure he'd want to work on one after Natasha Richardson's death. When asked if he would work with Lohan again, Quaid told Entertainment Tonight: “I would.”

“I would love it,” Quaid continued, but added, “You know, I don't know if we could do 'Twins Rarely Come Alone.' Because who wants to touch that? Natasha's not here.”

Natasha Richardson, who played Lohan's mother and Quaid's ex-wife Elizabeth in “The Twins” and would like to reunite the twins played by Lohan with their father, died in a skiing accident in 2009.

Quaid's comments were part of a career retrospective with Entertainment Tonight, in which Quaid looked back at interviews he had conducted with the entertainment program throughout his career, as well as clips from his films. In footage from around the time of the film's release in 1998, Quaid praised Lohan's acting talent.

In March, “Abbott Elementary” star Walter said of the film at the NAACP Image Awards: “I would love to do another version of it – or, if [Lohan] wants to come on our show, I would like that too.”

Despite all that, Quaid has fond memories of the project, which he says gave him “a second career” that continues to this day. “I tell anyone under 30 that I was their babysitter,” Quaid said, noting that this is the movie everyone would play for their kids while they do what they want to do.

Quaid ran through a list of his biggest hits in the Entertainment Tonight feature, starting with 1979's Breaking Away – for which Quaid praised both the quality of the film and his younger physique. “Look at those abs. I've got two guns and a six-pack, hopefully I don't get pulled over.”

Also on that list was 1983's The Stuff Men Are Made Of. The actor was shown an interview from the film's promotional phase in which he said acting is “all I want to do” – a sentiment he still shares today. “Actually, even more than that. Yes. Because it's – I just do it for fun now. I'm not trying to get anywhere like I was back then,” Quaid explained.

The actor praised the work of his co-star Liam Neeson in 1987's Suspect, adding that he only occasionally has contact with his co-star Cher – “once in a blue moon or two.”

He also revealed that controversial but historically significant musician Jerry Lee Lewis was “one of my piano teachers” during the filming of “Great Balls of Fire” – and that Lewis paid close attention to his playing. “He was looking over my shoulder the whole time and saying, 'You're doing it wrong, son,'” Quaid said.

In an interview shown at the release of Dragonheart in 1996, Quaid described the film as “a story that I think my kids would really like to see” – and the present-day Quaid notes that it turned out that Jack, his son and actor, liked the film – although not as much as Quaid's rather infamous Jaws 3-D. The actor added that Jack had an early connection to their profession, having “been holding a camera and making movies since he was four years old.”

You can watch the full interview with Dennis Quaid in the video above where he talks about his career, including his recent films, “Bailey” and his latest film, “Reagan.”