“Hocus Pocus 2” Stars Revealed That Thora Birch Was Originally Supposed To Play A Teacher In The Movie
Fiyin Olowokandi
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"Even if [the original cast members] came in as a cameo. People would say, 'They could be in the background!' And I'm like, really? You're going to put the leads of the first movie in the background and be satisfied? You're not going to be satisfied, you're going to be angry."
“Hocus Pocus 2” Stars Revealed That Thora Birch Was Originally Supposed To Play A Teacher In The Movie
Hocus Pocus 2 dropped on Disney+ this weekend, and all of us ghouls and goblins rejoiced!
Disney+ / Courtesy Everett Collection
Izzy (Belissa Escobedo), Becca (Whitney Peak), and Cassie (Lilia Buckingham) are a new trio of Salem teens trying to stop the Sanderson Sisters dead in their tracks, while Gilbert (Sam Richardson), the eccentric manager of the local Sanderson Sisters’ museum, tries to help them with his supernatural advice.
But while the movie does bring back the aforementioned trio and Doug Jones as everybody’s favorite zombie, Billy Butcherson, the rest of the cast from the original Hocus Pocus are sadly absent from the story.
Disney+ / Courtesy Everett CollectionBut it wasn’t supposed to be that way!
The film’s director, Anne Fletcher, explained to Entertainment Weekly that they tried to fit in all of our old favorites, like Max (Omri Katz), Allison (Vinessa Shaw), Dani (Thora Birch), and of course the iconic bullies Jay and Ice (Tobias Jelinek and Larry Bagby).
Disney“We wanted to weave in all of the people that the fans loved,” Fletcher said, “and when you sat back with all the ingredients and story, you’re like, ‘how do we make this work?'”
Buena Vista Pictures / ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection“It was very difficult to try to have them be a part of it because we did talk about it — painstakingly. You’re trying to stay on track with story, even if they came in as a cameo. People would say, ‘They could be in the background!’ And I’m like, really? You’re going to put the leads of the first movie in the background and be satisfied? You’re not going to be satisfied, you’re going to be angry.”
In a recent interview with EW, the three young actors who play opposite the Sanderson Sisters (Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, and Lilia Buckingham), talked about an early version of the script where Thora Birch’s character Dani played a vital role.
Chelsea Guglielmino / FilmMagic, Buena Vista Pictures / ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
“She was going to be our schoolteacher,” Escobedo revealed. “I remember talking to Anne about it being a thing where she was our teacher, and we went to her for help.”
Disney+
OK, but I neeeeeed to see this version please!!
Thora Birch herself weighed in on why she wasn’t in the sequel, telling ET Canada that “there were three options we had for how to bring Dani back, all of which I was excited by.”
Timothy Hiatt / Getty Images for The Roger Ebert’s Film FestivalBut unfortunately she, “was working on something else when they were filming. Otherwise I was definitely going to be there on set with the girls.”
Buena Vista Pictures / ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett CollectionTAKE ME TO THIS TIMELINE!!!!
Thora added that the first film “holds such a special place in my heart.”
Buena Vista Pictures / ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett CollectionWhich, same girl! And I think this sequel was a very solid follow-up to this spooky classic, even if we missed some of our original cast.
Disney+ / Courtesy Everett CollectionHave you watched Hocus Pocus 2 yet? Tell us what you thought in the comments!
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