{"id":244887,"date":"2026-06-08T01:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/marlon-wayans-reveals-how-an-unknown-anna-faris-beat-a-teenage-witch-for-scary-movie-role\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:18:44","slug":"marlon-wayans-reveals-how-an-unknown-anna-faris-beat-a-teenage-witch-for-scary-movie-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/marlon-wayans-reveals-how-an-unknown-anna-faris-beat-a-teenage-witch-for-scary-movie-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlon Wayans reveals how an unknown Anna Faris beat a teenage witch for Scary Movie role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marlon Wayans Reveals Melissa Joan Hart Was Supposed To Play Anna Faris&#8217; Role In &#8216;Scary Movie&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYCE3L6kTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VYCE3L6kTw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2063448116951732308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Marlon Wayans revealed that Melissa Joan Hart was originally cast as Cindy in Scary Movie. She even was supposed to get on a plane to start filming before getting the bad news to stay grounded.<\/p>\n<p>-Keenen Ivory Wayans saw Anna Faris audition and ended up fighting for her to get the role despite being a complete unknown<\/p>\n<p>-Scary Movie would go on to make Anna a huge movie star with various box office hits while MJH would go on to do Melissa &amp; Joey after Sabrina ended before being relegated to small tv films here and htere<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2063448116951732308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><br \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132442408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlon Wayans Reveals Melissa Joan Hart Was Supposed To Play Anna Faris&#8217; Role In &#8216;Scary Movie&#8217; https:\/\/t.co\/VYCE3L6kTw \u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 7, 2026 -Marlon Wayans revealed that Melissa Joan Hart was originally cast as Cindy in Scary Movie. She even was supposed to get on a plane to start filming before getting the bad news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}