Melissa Joan Hart Had This Reaction to the Internet Frenzy Over Her Grandmother Role at 47
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Melissa Joan Hart is finally reacting to the internet fuss over her Lifetime movie, Would You Kill For Me: The Mary Bailey Story, which premiered in October. For some reason, the debate gripped X, formerly Twitter, users in December as to why the 47-year-old actress was playing a grandmother — let’s just say, they were shocked.
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“I present, Melissa Joan Hart as granny,” they wrote. “I made it all so much worse. In my head I thought, ‘Wasn’t she just in a holiday romcom with Mario Lopez a hot minute ago?’ Holiday in Handcuffs came out in 2007.” While time has certainly passed since her Sabrina the Teenage Witch days, Hart is still very young to be playing a grandmother — it would mean that the characters had some teen pregnancies along the way. Another account chimed in, “Everyone check on your fellow elder millennials. We are not ok.” And one X user joked, “I need to go tell my husband that his childhood crush is a grandma. There’s no reason I should suffer alone.”
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I present, Melissa Joan Hart as granny! pic.twitter.com/wUN8UgggLH— Virginia Brasch (@Virginia_Brasch) December 13, 2023
Now that everyone is involved in this traumatic situation, Hart decided to give her hilarious two cents — and we applaud her for handling the entire uproar with a sense of humor. Let me explain….,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “While I’m proud of my performance in my most recent movie #WouldYouKillForMe, I couldn’t be more flattered that people don’t think of me as a grandmother (no matter how possible it is at the age of 47). It’s also refreshing to go viral for my work and not something controversial. I guess now Clarissa can Explain AARP or play the Middle-Aged Witch.”
Despite Hart’s light-hearted response, not everyone is willing to accept that Hart and other young Gen-Xers/elder Millennials are officially flirting with grandparent territory. “I know there’s a lot happening the world, but I just can’t move past Melissa Joan Hart being cast as the GRANDMOTHER in a Lifetime movie, this cannot be, we aren’t ready for it, please dont make us do this,” summed up an X account. Let’s just remember that aging is a privilege!
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