
“With Sabrina, I was definitely acting because I was definitely playing against my type. Created for me by my mother,” Hart noted.Įven though the character was made for her, Hart didn’t identify with Sabrina, who was a reserved and introverted teen. Viacom bought the idea from Hart as a television movie at first, though after some persistence, and after cutting together a trailer, Viacom was on board to bring “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” into fruition as a series.Īs for the perks of co-creating a series with her mother? “I never had an audition. Hart described the inspiration behind the series, one that was first published as a comic book by Archie Comics, and later adapted into a series by Hart and her mother, Paula Hart.Īfter stumbling upon an Archie comic book on a playground, Hart’s mother tried to sell it as a series to ViacomCBS (Viacom at the time). So that made it really exciting and different, and the actor in me loved that part.” Melissa Joan Hart as 'Sabrina' during season 7 Alamy Stock Photo I skied on Mars or you know, stuff like that. I loved when she would take on some kind of personality or some other, you know, wardrobe, or I was a snowman.

She later continued, “I got to be Cyrano, I got to be a trapeze artist.

We like to be actors, because we like to kind of slip into lots of different skins and pretend to be lots of different people,” Hart said.
