Melissa Joan Hart says she continues receiving residuals from cut ’80s movie scenes
Melissa Joan Hart may not appear in the final cut of Crocodile Dundee, but she’s still getting paid for the scenes she filmed nearly 40 years ago.
The actress, now 50, recently revealed that she still receives small residual checks from the 1986 comedy, even though her scenes were left out of the movie.
Still getting paid
“I was in ‘Crocodile Dundee,’ and even though you will not see my face in it — I was cut out — I still get my 26 cents every few months or something,” Hart said on Page Six‘s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.
According to the actress, those payments have gotten smaller over the years. But she joked that there’s at least one place in Los Angeles where even a few cents from those residuals could come in handy.
“There’s actually a bar in L.A. called Residuals where you can take your residuals and put it toward your drinks,” she said.
Filming ‘Crocodile Dundee’
Hart was about 10 when she landed the small role in Crocodile Dundee.
According to iHeartRadio’s “Too Much Information” podcast, she played a young girl who scraped her knee in Central Park and was helped by Paul Hogan‘s Crocodile Dundee.
In a 2011 interview with SheKnows, the Melissa & Joey star recalled having her scenes left out of the film and what the experience taught her as a child actor.
“You find that you have a lot of rejection and you learn young that you have to let it go, and if you don’t have thick skin, you aren’t going to make it,” she said at the time.
TV career
Hart got her big break playing Clarissa Darling on Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All, which ran from 1991 to 1994.
She later became Sabrina Spellman on ABC’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch, starring in the series for seven seasons from 1996 to 2003.
In more recent years, Hart has appeared in numerous Lifetime movies, including The Bad Guardian, Killing the Competition and Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story.
‘Totally ’90s House’
Hart’s latest project has her revisiting the ’90s while getting creative with interior design.
Hosted by Jaleel White, Totally ’90s House brings Hart together with stars like Jodie Sweetin, Matthew Lawrence, Joey Lawrence, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Brian Austin Green and Beverley Mitchell.
The teams are going head-to-head to transform a home that’s been stuck in the ’90s. The winning group gets $25,000 to donate to a charity of its choice.