“I think Bette was like, ‘Well, this is the direction I want to go in.
If you want me to be the actress, you’ve got to bend here.'”
She wanted to surrender herself into the wild character, and that she wasn’t recognizable.
Bette Midler in ‘Hocus Pocus.'.SNAP/REX/Shutterstock
I think that scared people."
In the end, Ortega says Disney relented when they observed Midler on set.
“Eventually, they relaxed, and the first dailies that came in,” Ortega says.
Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler, and Sarah Jessica Parker perform ‘I Put a Spell On You’ in ‘Hocus Pocus’.Everett Collection
“Everybody was laughing and happy.”
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