Dani Dennison: Last News

Thora Birch explained why she did not reprise her role as Dani Dennison in Disney's Hocus Pocus 2, which came out on Friday.The longtime actress, 40, told ET Canada that she took interest in appearing in the sequel, but couldn't due to a prior commitment. 'By the time they got around to filming, I was already on something else,' she revealed while on the red carpet at Variety's Power of Women event in Los Angeles. Speaking up: Thora Birch explained why she didn't reprise her role as Dani Dennison in Disney's Hocus Pocus 2, which came out on FridayThe star shared she was 'dismayed' that it didn't work out, adding, 'There were three options we had for how to bring Dani back, all of which I was excited by.'Although she won't appear in the sequel, nearly 30 years after the 1993 original, she said she' will be tuning in to watch it.  'I’m excited for the fans who have been begging for for ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ for years,' she noted.

During ET’s visit to the set of “The Gabby Petito Story”, Lifetime’s true-crime film about the van life murder, director Thora Birch opened up about her involvement in two other anticipated projects, “Hocus Pocus 2” on Disney+ and Netflix’s “Wednesday” series.

, Lifetime’s true-crime film about the van life murder, director Thora Birch opened up about her involvement in two other anticipated projects, on Disney+ and Netflix’s series.“I was just a little dismayed I wasn’t able to make it,” Birch said of the sequel to, in which she originated the role of 8-year-old Dani Dennison, one of the Salem, Massachusetts, kids who gets caught up in the mayhem after the resurrection of the Sanderson sisters (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker). Nearly 30 years later, Midler, Najimy and Parker have reunited for a new tale about the three witches, with Doug Jones reprising his zombie role. However, the original film’s young stars, Omri Katz and Vinessa Shaw, are not among the cast returning for the sequel.“I was working on something else when they were filming,” Birch said, revealing that “otherwise I was definitely going to be there on set with the girls.” That said, “I can’t wait to see what they do with it.

Hocus Pocus 2 is finally coming to Disney+ and there's less than a month to go before we find out what the Sanderson sisters are up to. Disney first released its trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel back in June, and it quickly amassed tens of millions of views.