'Hocus Pocus' stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy got stuck in the air on rigs while filming the movie's flying sequences. 'It was funny until it hurt,' director Kenny Ortega says.
Director Kenny Ortega recalls "good laughs that turned into, 'Okay, this isn't funny anymore. Get a ladder!'" with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy.Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' beat reporter, host of 'Quick Drag' Twitter Spaces, and cohost of 'EW's BINGE' podcast. Almost all of the drag content on this site is my fault .
"The technology then was, really, pulling ropes. Often, during the flying sequences — and with no disrespect to the folks that were in charge of all of that — we had three witches flying on a soundstage, and, on occasion, there would be near-misses," he remembers. "On occasion, there would be electrical failures where they would be left up there, dangling.
"Again, good laughs that turned into, 'Okay, this isn't funny anymore, get a ladder!'" he says with a laugh., which also saw the three stars soaring over the skies of Salem. This time, though, in place of a vacuum cleaner, Mary updated her mode of transportation when she swapped the traditional sweeper for a pair of Roomba-style robotic vacuums.
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