More than 30 years after beloved ’90s family-friendly movie Hocus Pocus cast its Halloween spell on moviegoers, the behind-the-scenes stories just keep getting better. While most fans remember the 1993 Disney classic for its Sanderson sister chaos and cult-favorite nostalgia, one of the film’s stars has shared a hazier recollection from set, one involving pumpkins, marijuana, and a lesson in “never again.”
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly actor Tobias Jelinek, who played leather-jacketed bully Jay in Hocus Pocus (but unfortunately not in its sequel) confirmed that he did, in fact, smoke weed with his co-star Omri Katz (aka Max Dennison) during production. But unlike Katz, who previously told EW in 2022 that he was “having a good old time” experimenting with cannabis throughout filming, Jelinek says his one and only attempt was a total disaster. He explained:
