

"It was really Tuesday through Friday," she laughed. Shipka met with creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa last December to talk about the series, tested for it twice and waited what "felt like an eternity" to find if she got the part. "I think that a lot of her struggle is figuring out a way to balance her worlds in a way that isn't catastrophic, and that's a humongous undertaking because the witch world and the mortal world just don't mix really." In the first episode, we meet her on the eve of her 16th birthday when she's supposed to choose to go full-on witch or live a normal life. In The Chilling Adventures, this Sabrina is a teen struggling with her identity. I sort of just wanted my own separate Sabrina." I definitely think one day I will go back and watch it. "I hadn't seen much or any of the 90s version just because it was a little bit before my time," laughed the 18-year-old.


Shipka said she's never seen the Hart version but does intend to watch it one day. The most recent being a 1990s comedy with a laugh track starring Melissa Joan Hart. Shipka is the latest in a number of Sabrina the Teenage Witch iterations over the years. A post shared by Kiernan Shipka on at 3:37pm PDT
