In the second half of 1999, three years after the launch of the popular series Sabrina the teenage witchthe leading actress Melissa Joan Hart he feared that he was facing the premature end of his career. All because of a photo shoot that apparently upset the executives responsible for the program, to the point that they not only threatened to fire her, but also to sue her.
As part of his recent appearance on the podcast Pod Meets World, Hart spoke about what has been “the worst day of his life.” According to his statements, it was when the world premiere of the youth romantic comedy took place. drive me crazy that she starred in. The premiere of the film was an exhausting day with a lot of work, since the actress had to “be up since four in the morning” to deal with the press. And to top it off, the interpreter of Sabrina was going through a love break, which made it more difficult to put on a good face in front of the photographers and journalists, without even suspecting that her day was about to get worse.
Once the red carpet of drive me crazy, the actor got into a limousine headed for the airport. She had planned to travel to Vancouver, Canada, to join the filming of the parody tape Scary Movie. However, before boarding the plane, Hart received a call saying that he had been left out of the movie. And also, they asked him to travel to a after party where they gave him worse news, now in relation to his leading role in Sabrina the teenage witch.
«While at the party, my lawyer appeared and asked me: ‘Have you done a photo shoot for the magazine Maxim?’ I told him: ‘Yes, I did it.’ And they told me: ‘Well, you’re going to be sued and fired from your show, so don’t talk to the press and don’t do anything’“Hart recounted in his talk with Pod Meets World (via ew).
Indeed, weeks ago, the then twenty-something celebrity had been photographed in lingerie for Maxima well-known men’s magazine.
«I received a call on my mother’s cell phone – my producer – and she asked me: ‘What did you do?’ And I replied: ‘I don’t know, what my publicist told me to do in the photo shoot.’ I did a photo shoot for Maxim! Is MaximOf course you’re going to be in your underwear,” he added.
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According to Melissa Joan Hart, the justification for (almost) firing her from Sabrina the teenage witch was that he had allegedly violated his contract with Archie Comics. One section stipulated that she was prohibited from “playing her character naked” and Maxim he had committed the (apparent) imprudence of directly mentioning Sabrina on the cover of the issue corresponding to the histrion’s lingerie photos. There she read: “Sabrina, your favorite witch without a stitch”, which translates as: “Sabrina, your favorite witch without clothes”.
In the opinion of the actress, there was no valid basis for firing her or for suing her. And in the end, it was all resolved in a matter of weeks, with no serious penalty for Hart. He just had to write an apology letter. Nothing to do with the possibility of losing her famous youth show, the same day that she had lost her boyfriend and her role in Scary Movie (this one finally fell into the hands of Carmen Electra).
«[Aquel día, mi papá] He came up to me and said: ‘Are you okay?’ I told her: ‘No’, and she hugged me. I was crying even harder because my father was hugging me. He was like, ‘I’m getting fired from my show, I just got fired from the movie, and I just broke up with my boyfriend,'” he recalled.
the seven seasons of Sabrina the teenage witch (1996-2003) are available through the platform of streaming ParamountPlus.
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.