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Except the fourth one, where they replace Kimberly J.
Brown with Sara Paxton and expect us to just, uh, not notice?
No, we donotacknowledge the fourth film.
(Sorry, Sara.)
We recognize Kimberly J.
Brown and Kimberly J.
Brown only as the one true Marnie Cromwell in this house.
Do you remember getting cast in the role inHalloweentown?
Very, very slowly.Yes, very, very slowly.
This is so cool.
Theres really no wonder as to why I took to acting so quickly when I was young.
Any opportunity for me to become a different character, I was all over it.
Plus, you get to go out and get candy?
I was disappointed it was only one day a year.
Im curious what the flying scenes were like for you on set?
We did that on the final day of shooting.
We basically sat on a very skinny stool, high up in the air, with the broom attached.
They rocked the broom back and forth and did shots traveling the camera around us to get various angles.
It was our last day of shooting and we did that all day.
Debbie [Reynolds] and I up on a stool.
I just remember thinking like,You are never going to forget this day.
That isnt the kind of thing you get to do all the time.
These awkward, like, bicycle seat kind of things.
It looks so exciting and magical on screen.
Not as comfortable as it looked.
It was supposed to end with her putting it in the middle of a forest.
Marnie was going to age considerably.
I had gone through the process of getting a mask made.
They did the whole plaster of Paris over your face and everything.
And then the ending was rewritten.
The mold was to make the mask fit perfectly to my face.
But right after we did the mold is when they rewrote the ending.
I have the book from the first movie.
The producers were kind enough to give me a copy of it.
I had no idea how symbolic that would become.
The fans love the book and its very special to me.
Disney gave meKalabars bat assistantfrom the first one that puppet.
I kept Marnies outfit from the second movie, that I also wore in the third one.
The whole purple cloak and everything.
I have one of the stand-in little brooms that Marnie carried around in her pocket from the second movie.
I have the scrolls from the thirdHalloweentown.
I wish I had grabbed more.
You mentioned Kalabar, the mayor.
Im curious, do you think he was a good mayor?
Like did Halloweentown have accessible health care for everyone?Maybe if he hadnt been evil to his core.
He was definitely driven and had a vision.
His vision was just very screwed up.
I hadnt seen him for probably a good ten years or so.
I was writing some new sketches and stuff for my YouTube channel and we reconnected.
We ended up doing a small, short film I directed.
Its a follow-up toHalloweentown 2about where Kal would be now.
In that process of doing all that, it just unexpectedly turned romantic.
That was a nice surprise.
It has been really fun over the years watching the fans figure that out.
And then freak out.
So the romance didnt start on set as teens?No.
We were friends and we got along really well.
He was in a relationship at the time and hes a little bit older than me.
It just wasnt that kind of thing at the time.
Professionally speaking, I dont usually think its good to get on that path anyway.
I think they always had the most solid relationship as friends in the movies.
And Im like, No, Marnie would have never gone for Kal in a million years.
Everybody has their theories.
That was the choice that they made, and we kind of moved forward.
I appreciate the fans and, you know, the support and everything since.
Have you seen it?Parts of it here and there, but no.
I didnt really sit and watch it.
The dynamics between Marnie and her siblings were one of my favorite aspects to play in the movies.
These are the things people have definitely noticed over the years.
Is there anybody youve been surprised to learn is aHalloweentownfan?I get stopped at the most random times.
