Melissa Joan Hart Struggled to Relate to "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch": "I Just didn't Identify"
by Raechal Shewfelt
May 9, 2024


There was something about Sabrina that Melissa Joan Hart never quite related to. Hart, now 48, was 20 when the show first aired on ABC. Sabrina, a 16-year-old just learning that she had magical powers, was not like her. At all.

"Not only was she younger than me, she didn't want attention. She wanted to be the wallflower," Hart told PEOPLE in an interview published Thursday. "She didn't know what to do with these magical abilities. She felt very lost, and other people were trying to help her solve it."




Sabrina dealt with the same ups and downs of any high school student. Being a witch brought additional problems.

"If she wasn't always in different costumes and kind of getting put in these weird situations where I got to be Cinderella or Alice [in] Wonderland or a trapeze artist or in Cirque du Soleil or whatever," Hart said, "I don't know if I would've enjoyed the experience as much as I did because I just didn't identify with her very well."

https://ew.com/melissa-joan-hart-struggled-to-relate-to-sabrina-8646398

Kind of strange that an actress would complain about not being the person that she's playing. Isn't that the point of acting, doing it so well that the viewer believes the character is real?