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Melissa Joan Hart Teaches Mayim About Clam Breeding & Christmas!

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Clarissa Explains It All, What Women Binge podcast) explains how she got her starts on her iconic television series, her Blossom audition, what it’s like to have your mom as your manager, and how her strong sense of responsibility helped her cope with the pressures of being a child actor. She and Mayim bond over starring in female character-driven shows around the same time and Melissa teaches Mayim about "Christmas Culture." Melissa opens up about her journey as a lifelong learner, her foray into directing, and the fascinating story about how her mom inadvertently became her manager.

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She would go out Friday nights and they would take me with them to a bar and I wasn't allowed to drink.

0:07.2

No one would allow me to no matter how mad I got I kicked one guy in the shins with my Sean.

0:12.2

I had a crush on him. I kicked him in the shins with my combat boots and was like,

0:15.6

get me a beer and he's like, no, I'm not getting you a beer because I want to keep my job.

0:19.2

And I'm so thankful for that now, right? Like as mad as I got, like, give me a beer.

0:24.0

They would be like, no, not and and I still have some really, really good friends.

0:28.8

Like my best friends, my son, my oldest sons, godparents are the executive producers assistant

0:33.7

and the wardrobe supervisor from Clarissa. So they're still my best friends and they looked out

0:38.1

for me and they became like a family and they surrounded me and they protected me.

0:41.6

And also I think because there was something about me being the lead where I felt like I was

0:46.3

responsible the same way I'm the oldest of eight kids and I feel responsible. I have a very serious

0:51.8

sense of responsibility and I don't want to disappoint anybody. So I have to memorize those monologues.

0:58.3

I have to, you know, show up on set or so and so it doesn't get to go home to their child

1:03.2

for their, you know, big polo match or whatever. Like I realized this, this huge weight that's on

1:08.9

my shoulders of like, if you don't show up on time and you don't know your lines and you make

1:12.3

everyone wait, that's not only embarrassing, that's super rude. You're just selfish. Like,

1:17.9

so I didn't want to be that person. So I think that there was this sense of responsibility that was

1:21.2

just infused in me at a young age of doing the right thing and being responsible for myself.

1:27.7

And so that carried from Clarissa to Sabrina and then it's Sabrina. I had my mom to protect me.

1:32.4

Like all the me two movement stuff. Of course, when that all happened, everyone's asking me what's

1:36.0

my story. My mom was always right there with me. My mom has a few me two movement stories because she

1:41.4

ended up, you know, getting having meetings with producers that kind of could have gone in bad directions.

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