To many fanatics, Melissa Joan Hart will perpetually be Sabrina the Teenage Witch — so finding out she not too long ago performed a grandma is inflicting many to freak out.
Hart, 47, portrays Ella in Lifetime’s 2023 ripped from the headlines movie, Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Tale. Whilst the film premiered in October, a clip from the movie not too long ago went viral on social media after fanatics came upon Ella is a grandmother of 2 children, considered one of which is meant to be 11-year-old Mary Bailey, who killed her stepdad whilst following her mom’s needs.
“Oh, it’s ready,” Hart’s Ella stated as she pulled a cooked turkey out of the oven for Christmas dinner within the clip shared by the use of TikTok on Tuesday, December 12. “It’s perfect, grandma,” her granddaughter Mary (Presley Allard) answered.
Lovers have been surprised that Hart was once solid as a grandma of an 11 yr outdated with one fan writing within the feedback, “I feel attacked! Melissa Joan Hart is a grandmother? I’m pretty sure she’s my age! 😂😂😂.”
“Umm had to rush to the comment to make sure I was not alone. … We are not subscribing to MJH as a grandma! — Signed every 90’s kid,” a 2nd consumer wrote. A 3rd fan joked, “Ya’ll. Melissa Joan Hart playing the grandma & JLo is still playing the bride in movies. I am dead 😂.” (Jennifer Lopez is 54 and starred as a bride-to-be in two 2022 motion pictures.)
The now-viral clip additionally were given numerous responses by the use of X because it made its rounds this week. “Melissa Joan Hart? Playing a grandmother? Now, I feel old af,” one fan answered by the use of X on Wednesday, December 13, whilst any other wrote, “I just saw a clip of Melissa Joan Hart playing a grandmother. Someone hold me I am unwell.”
One Thursday, December 14, one consumer when compared the casting option to an episode of Jerry Springer, writing by the use of X, “Uhhhhh, what in the @jerryspringer?? @MelissaJoanHart is 47 yrs old!! Is this a #TeenMom situation where the kid also had a child in high school??”
Hart hasn’t publicly commented on fanatics’ outrage over her grandma name onscreen, however she did thank audience in October for tuning in. “Thanks for watching! If you or someone you know is in a dangerous situation, please save this number and find help!” she wrote by the use of Instagram, regarding the movie’s depiction of violence and abuse.
Whilst fanatics had been vocal in regards to the clips of Hart as a grandma, her real-life sons have selected to distance themselves from her profession.
“They want nothing to do with it,” Hart solely instructed Us Weekly of her children’ aversion to performing final month. “They think it’s weird. And you know what, I kind of get that. They’re like, ‘It’s just weird. I don’t want to watch you on TV and I don’t want to watch you kiss another man in a Christmas movie.’”
Hart stocks sons Mason, 17, Braydon, 15, and Tucker, 11, together with her husband Mark Wilkerson, who additionally chooses to seem the opposite direction in relation to her kissing scenes.
“He ignores all that,” the Clarissa Explains It All alum published to Us. “Luckily, he doesn’t pay attention to that stuff. He rarely looks at my social media or anything like that.”