It’s so beautifully done and so atmospheric. On this, you step onto the set and you know what to do. Many times in my career, I’ve wondered, “What am I going to do with this character?,” and then somebody hands you the clothes and, all of a sudden, you know who the character is. I’ll tell you, you know where you’re at as soon as you walk on the set.
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I only saw the pages the character was in, so I saw maybe six pages, but the blurb from the casting director said that it was based on the dark graphic novels by Roberto and not on the TV series. PINCHOT: I did not see a script or anything, but I was told with great enthusiasm by my manager that it was a super duper dark take on the material. What were you told about what this version of the show would be and who the character would be? Were you given much information about any of that? And then, I went in and did it, and they said, “That was just revelatory.” I said, “Okay.” And since I wasn’t going to use my glasses, I sat in the waiting room and copied it out in Sharpie that was big enough to read without my glasses. I didn’t want to be one of those people auditioning for a professorial type with glasses on ‘cause that’s too on the nose. And this one, I looked at it, and for some reason unknown to me, I just thought, “Yup.” And then, I wanted to do it without my glasses. The funny thing is that I usually make a big federal case over auditions ‘cause I feel that I should represent myself properly, as if I’ve worked on it for weeks and weeks, so I always spend a lot of time finessing it. The thing that I tell people to center them and get them to stop yapping about how cute Sabrina was, is about how they eat people in this. People say to me, all the time, “What are you working on?,” and I take a long breath because as soon as I say Sabrina, they say, “So, what’s it like playing her cat?” And I say, “No, it’s not all cute like that.” It’s fabulously sexy and funny and nasty. While Sabrina is on her own personal journey of discovering what she stands for and where she belongs, her aunts Hilda ( Lucy Davis) and Zelda ( Miranda Otto), warlock cousin Ambrose ( Chance Perdomo), high priest Father Blackwood ( Richard Coyle), the Devil’s handmaiden Madam Satan ( Michelle Gomez), human boyfriend Harvey ( Ross Lynch), and even her familiar, Salem the cat, are each trying to influence her, in their own way.ĭuring this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actor Bronson Pinchot (who plays Baxter High’s villainous principal George Hawthorne) talked about how he came to be a part of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, what he thinks of the dark approach to this material, what he loves about sitcom compared to single camera, why Sabrina Spellman is such a thorn in his side, what it’s like working with Kiernan Shipka, and one of the funniest moments that happened on set.Ĭollider: I was a fan of the original Sabrina series, of which this is nothing like, and I’m glad about that because it can really be its own thing.īRONSON PINCHOT: Oh, yeah, it’s true.
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Nonetheless, Pinchot's earlier body of comedic work earned him enough good will with fans that he continued to be a welcome presence in his many TV, film, and stage appearances.From show creator/writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the Netflix original series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina follows Sabrina Spellman ( Kiernan Shipka), the magical 16-year-old half-witch/half-mortal who feels conflicted about both sides of her nature.
Later, he would reemerge on the 2005 season of the reality show "The Surreal Life" (The WB, 2002-04/VH1, 2004-06), in which he showed himself to be far-removed from the sexually innocent Balki audiences had long associated him with.
In the years that followed the end of his hit show, Pinchot made several unsuccessful attempts to land a new series, sporadically punctuated with supporting appearances in films such as "True Romance" (1993). He developed a similar character - minus the attitude - with Balki, the bumpkin cousin from the fictional Mediterranean island of Mypos on the long-running sitcom "Perfect Strangers," alongside co-star Mark Linn-Baker. He followed his feature debut with a small, but scene-stealing turn in "Beverly Hills Cop" as the snarky, oddly-accented Serge. Prior to stardom, Pinchot's work in an off-Broadway show brought him to the attention of a casting agent on the Tom Cruise hit film "Risky Business" (1983). Comedic actor Bronson Pinchot first turned heads as a snobby art gallery worker of uncertain nationality and dubious sexual orientation opposite Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984), before becoming a television staple as the lovable Balki on "Perfect Strangers" (ABC, 1986-1993).
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