For years there has been a verbal guerrilla war about the new edition of "Charmed". Holly Marie Combs thunders like a real thunderstorm witch.
The way the actresses of the old and new versions of the witch series "Charmed" have been fighting for years is not very magical. Even before the reboot saw the light of day in the US around two years ago, the stars of the original expressed criticism of the reboot. It has since turned into a private Twitter feud between Piper actress Holly Marie Combs (46) and one of the new witches, actress Sarah Jeffery (24).
The new stumbling block is a video that Combs recently posted, in which she and McGowan again tease the new edition. Said Jeffery responded to these statements of the two and wrote on Twitter: "I find it sad and, to be honest, also pathetic that two grown women behave in this way. I really hope that they find joy in other ways than putting down the WOC (Women of Color, editor's note). I would be ashamed if I behaved like that. "
That, in turn, could not and would not let Combs sit on him and wrote the latest chapter of the dispute to date. On Twitter, she commented on Jeffery's statements with the words: "That's bullshit. And a lot, obviously. People who (…) make derogatory accusations against someone's character just because they disagree on a TV show are clearly wrong. "
The chronology of the dispute
When the "Charmed" reboot was announced in early 2017, all four of the original's four former stars – Combs, McGowan, Alyssa Milano (47) and Shannen Doherty (49) – expressed their displeasure, according to "Entertainment Weekly". Combs was particularly annoyed by the fact that the cast of the new edition was indirectly saying that "the original actresses are too old for a job they did twelve years ago." Charmed "belongs" to the four of us, the numerous writers and crew members and especially the fans, "is Combs' conclusion.
Doherty was also annoyed by the description that the reboot was a "brave, funny and feminist" remake of the old series – as if the original hadn't been all of this. Milano, meanwhile, disliked the fact that she and the other original witches were not involved in the new project.