Kathy Najimy, who starred with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus ... “I loved my costume,” she recalls. “I said, ‘I think her hair should be the top of a pumpkin ...

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy returned for the new sequel, 29 years after the original Hocus Pocus Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE.

Kathy Najimy almost didn’t join Hocus Pocus due to concerns about portraying witches. Discover what made her change her mind and step into Mary Sanderson’s shoes.