“I did feel the whole time that there was a little witch there,” Ortega recalls.
However, he felt the script revealed Allison’s powers in subtle ways.
“I thought she was bewitching as a teenage girl.
Vinessa Shaw as Allison in ‘Hocus Pocus.'.Disney
It was not typical for Max to fall head-over-heels for her,” the filmmaker adds.
“She had a mystical beauty, and she was bewitching.”
Speaking of clothing, Shaw later revealed that Allison’s jewelry and costuming hinted at elements of witchcraft.
“It was intentionally implied, for sure,” she toldThe Wrapin 2022.
And the necklace, it has kind of like a pentagram-looking design with the stones.
But again, it was never explicit."
“She was going to be our schoolteacher,” Escobedo previously said.
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