Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photo: Touchstone/Kobal/Shutterstock Sister Mary Patrick can’t control herself. She has a humble megawatt smile to match her fidgety enthusiasm that never, ever wanes. She is, in her mother’s words, “pure sunshine,” without a trace of cynicism in her surprisingly operatic bones, a quality Kathy Najimy capitalized on from her first audition, back when she was doing a two-woman stage show in San Francisco.
Different combinations. Mary Wickes, I’m sure, didn’t even have to audition because she’s a legend. She’s one of the greatest humans — one of the most authentic, just says whatever the fuck she wants. She was my role model. Oh my God, I miss her.Well, yes, but I hesitate to say them because I wouldn’t like it if someone said, “Yeah, Kathy Najimy auditioned but didn’t get that.”
Anyway, I went back and I did the opera voice. After I think my sixth trip from San Francisco on my own dime, I somehow knew it would be worth it. Plus I forgot to even mention this to you: I had known Whoopi since the very, very beginning of her career. She moved to San Diego with her great daughter, Alex.I knew her before any movie we had ever done together. I knew her from the improv scene. She was doing this brilliant show with a man named Don Victor at a little theater.
I think that came right away. Again, Mary Hart would just be so positive and gleeful about everything, so I just made a big decision and stuck with it. She really was happy to be a nun, thrilled with everything. It was really fun to play. She barely had a concern: Yes, let’s go up in a plane! Yes, let’s go to the casino! There’s only a handful of those people who are just so positive about everything.
That is incredible, and of course it all comes full circle with Hocus Pocus just a few years later. It’s kismet. The second movie has different writers, a different director, a different cinematographer, and a different setting. What is gained and what is lost by that turnover?
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