Bette Midler Clears Up Hocus Pocus Lyric CONFUSION
Bubble, bubble, we're successful trouble—because it turns retired we haven't been incorrectly quoting Hocus Pocus this full time.
At Sept. 27's Hocus Pocus 2 premiere, Bette Midler, who plays Winifred Sanderson successful the beloved classic, put rumors of a misquote to rest.
"Salem, not sailors!" she clarified exclusively to E! News, referencing her greeting that prefaced the film's iconic "I Put A Spell On You" performance. "Why would I accidental 'Hello, sailors'? No, no, it's Salem—'Hello, Salem.'"
Midler went connected to quip that "sailors" wouldn't marque immoderate consciousness due to the fact that "there's nary h2o there." Well, that's 1 enigma solved.
All this hocus pocus first began moving amok connected Sept. 23 erstwhile Midler herself incorrectly quoted the film connected Instagram, writing, "Hello sailors. My name's Winifred, what's yours?" But fans of the movie couldn't assistance but announcement the supernatural slip-up. "Wait… it's sailors not Salem??" 1 spectator wrote, portion different quipped that they were "today years aged erstwhile I learned she says 'Sailors' alternatively of 'Salem.'"
Clearly, viewers are inactive precise invested successful the movie astir 30 years later—and Midler explained wherefore she thinks fans stay truthful progressive contempt the clip spread betwixt the 1993 archetypal and this year's sequel, which some prima Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as Winifred's wacky witch siblings.
"It's precise sweet," she said of the Halloween classic. "Even though they're killers, it's truthful sweet. There's thing astir the enslaved betwixt the sisters."
Plus, Midler said she loves the "looney" broadside characters astir of all, calling them "crazier than the witches!"
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It was Midler herself who pushed to resurrect the Sanderson Sisters for a sequel aft noticing the film's ongoing popularity, adjacent being called to formal up arsenic Winifred for foundation galas passim the years.
"As I watched it progress, I'd telephone the workplace erstwhile a twelvemonth to ask, 'How astir it?'" she recalled to Entertainment Weekly Sept. 13. "It wasn't until astir 3 years agone that they advocated for it, and question started."
Watch the magic hap when Hocus Pocus 2 premieres connected Disney+ Sept. 30, and work much astir behind-the-scenes secrets of the archetypal movie below.