Kathy Najimy Has ‘Hocus Pocus’ Reunion with Bette Midler

The Sanderson sisters reunited in New York Metropolis.

Kathy Najimy and Bette Midler celebrated Najimy’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, Feb. 5, the place Midler joined Najimy for a pre-birthday celebration dinner at Michael’s NYC.

Najimy posted a candy picture to Instagram of the pair embracing one another on the dinner desk donning coordinating black sweaters. Najimy’s birthday is Thursday, Feb. 6.

“Nothing BETTEr than a birthday-eve dinner with this magnificence final evening. 🌺,” Najimy merely captioned the picture.

The longtime mates had been seemingly joined by Najimy’s husband Dan Finnerty, who was tagged within the picture however didn’t seem in it.

Finnerty, who has been married to Najimy since 1998, posted a candy message on his personal Instagram, writing “Completely happy birthday to my candy candy girl.”

Midler, 79, and Najimy notably portrayed the spooky Sanderson sisters within the Hocus Pocus movies collectively, as Winifred and Mary, alongside Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah.

Within the authentic Hocus Pocus, which hit theaters in 1993, Salem teen Max (Omri Katz) inadvertently resurrects the evil Sanderson sisters — who had been hanged three centuries prior — when he lights the Black Flame Candle on Halloween on the sisters’ former dwelling. They wreak havoc in town earlier than assembly their demise.

Almost 30 years later, Najimy, Midler and Parker starred within the sequel movie, which adopted the Sanderson sisters’ second resurrection — and gave perception into how the Sandersons turned witches centuries in the past.

When the sequel premiered in September 2022, Najimy advised PEOPLE how particular it’s to be part of the movie franchise that audiences adore.

“It simply actually may be very generational, however no one is extra stunned than we’re about how this film and these characters have simply flooded by means of folks’s Halloweens and so they actually take it critically,” she mentioned. “They actually, actually stay up for it. And it is flattering.

Najimy additionally added, “Who knew that nearly 30 years later we might be doing this sequel?” Joking that a 3rd installment of Hocus Pocus must come sooner fairly than later. “I believe if we did it 30 years later once more, properly, there can be walkers and canes concerned. The flying would possibly simply be just a little one-foot blip off the bottom.”

Lower than a yr after the sequel’s premiere, Sean Bailey — who was president of Walt Disney Studios Movement Image Manufacturing on the time — confirmed in a June 2023 interview with The New York Occasions {that a} third installment was green-lit.

Jen D’Angelo, who penned Hocus Pocus 2, advised Leisure Weekly in October 2023, that she was determining the Sanderson sisters’ subsequent motion pictures. “We’re nonetheless within the story part, we’re nonetheless engaged on it,” mentioned D’Angelo.

“We have been engaged on some concepts, and it has been enjoyable to dive again into that world, and we have now so many instructions through which to go and so many new characters to discover,” she added. 

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Hocus Pocus 1 and a couple of can be found to stream on Disney+.