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The cast of Sabrina the Teenage Witch tells Entertainment Weekly all about their favorite moments from the show.
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Melissa Joan Hart shares how “Sabrina was kind of a tough character to play.”
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“I was vomiting my brains out,” the actress recalls as she looks back on one of the series‘ most memorable scenes.
Playing a teenage witch came with plenty of perks, but Melissa Joan Hart says keeping Sabrina Spellman interesting over seven seasons wasn’t always magic.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hart reunited with her costars Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert, Jenna Leigh Green, Elisa Donovan, and David Lascher to talk with Entertainment Weekly, revisiting some of the sitcom’s most memorable moments and sharing stories from behind the scenes.
While watching a clip from the Season 4 episode “The Good, the Bad and the Luau,” in which the Witches Council informs Sabrina that she must be thrown into a volcano, before Katrina (Sabrina’s evil twin sister) unceremoniously pushes her into it, Hart reflected on what made playing Sabrina challenging over the years.
“Sabrina was kind of a tough character to play in a way for me because she wasn’t daring and adventurous. She was trying to disappear and fade into the woodwork,” Hart explains. “But she luckily got to do these wild, crazy, weird things, which kept it really, really interesting for me.”
The actress pointed to some of Sabrina’s more outlandish magical adventures, including having an evil twin, stepping into the world of Alice in Wonderland, and getting to be a trapeze artist, as ways that she says, “Kept it really really interesting for me.”
“Sometimes when you’re on a show and you’re playing the same character year after year after year, and seven seasons’ worth, you get really bored and tired of the character,” she adds. “And I think that it being a magical show helped us all kind of stay in it a little bit more.”
The volcano scene in the episode also came with its own behind-the-scenes challenges.
Hart revealed that she was actually feeling quite sick while filming the sequence, which required her to play the two versions of herself. With the cast and crew shooting outside in the sun, the actress was so unwell that she asked a crew member to stand behind her.
“I was vomiting my brains out,” Hart recalls. “I asked our key grip to stand behind me in case I passed out and fell off because we were out in the sun. I’m puking off camera and I’m standing there trying to play two of me.”
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The actress also shared what she asks young fans at conventions. “I always ask kids at any Comic-Con. I say, ‘Do you know the Spellman family secret?’ I test people by how well they know the show if they know the Spellman family secret,” she says. Of course, every Sabrina fan knows that the family secret is that every Spellman witch is born as twins, with a good twin and a bad twin.
Between evil twins, alternate worlds, trapeze acts, the occasional attempted volcano sacrifice, and unexpected onset illnesses, Sabrina certainly kept Hart on her toes.
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