Millennials by no means obtained to see Nickelodeon’s proposed Clarissa Explains It All reboot, however Melissa Joan Hart wasn’t the most important fan of the undertaking’s plotline anyway.
“I believe it was that Clarissa is divorced and moving to California with her two kids and living on the beach in California with her aunt,” Hart instructed Insider in a current interview. “So I don’t know. It wasn’t my favorite way in.”
Hart, 46, performed the eponymous teen of Clarissa Explains It All for the Nick sitcom’s five-season run between 1991 and 1994, earlier than occurring to star within the ABC sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch and the ABC Family comedy Melissa & Joey.
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In 2018, Nickelodeon was in early levels of a Clarissa Explains It All reboot, with Hart executive-producing the undertaking alongside sequence creator Mitchell Kriegman, in response to The Hollywood Reporter. But 4 years later, Hart revealed the undertaking wasn’t going ahead.
“Nickelodeon got a new president, and they kind of squashed the whole thing,” she mentioned on the time, per People. “So it was actually in the works, and yeah, it just sort of disappeared. It took like a year to do the contracts, which was the hardest part, and then it just kind of fizzled out. So I don’t think [it will happen].”
In her Insider interview, Hart mentioned she thought it’d be “more fun” to reboot Clarissa than to reboot Sabrina. “Of course, whatever I say, I’m going to piss off half the people,” she mentioned.
“I do feel like Sabrina wrapped up really nicely with her riding off on the motorcycle with Harvey [Nate Richert],” Hart added, referencing Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s 2003 finale. “I think that ending on Sabrina was so iconic that I don’t want to go back and try to recreate that and have another good ending.”
Hart was nonetheless in enterprise with Nickelodeon as of final 12 months, nevertheless: She voiced Becca Chang, a recurring character on the animated sequence The Casagrandes.