It’s been months since ABC dropped the information that The Conners will probably be ending with Season 7, placing it alongside many different reveals canceled in 2024 whose closing episodes will probably be hitting the 2025 premiere schedule. And throughout the lengthy wait for brand new episodes, comic and former Roseanne showrunner Whitney Cummings dropped the espresso-flavored bombshell that pop star and Disney vet Sabrina Carpenter initially auditioned to play Darlene’s daughter Harris when the preliminary revival was coming collectively.
The information sparked questions on why the casting workforce would have handed over the Lady Meets World alum when casting for the teenager daughter character, however Cummings clarified that a part of the story when showing on CNN’s New Yr’s Eve broadcast alongside co-hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. There, Cohen inquired (maybe in a focused style) about why Cummings & Co. would have turned Carpenter down for the position, which sparked the Quick Pals host to reply with:
Nobody passes on Sabrina Carpenter for something. She got here in and he or she was not a match for one million causes. In fact you are citing this drama.
To her level there, Andy Cohen has constructed a part of his profession on establishing dramatic conditions, whether or not it is via being a producer on Bravo’s Actual Housewives franchise or because the host of the nightly chat present Watch What Occurs Dwell, which frequently options celebs both answering or steadfastedly avoiding questions on scandalous profession moments. So it was completely in step with expectations that he’d deliver up Whitney Cummings’ previous admission that the pop star was one of many hopefuls auditioning for Roseanne‘s tenth season.
The Roast queen did not absolutely take the bait, although, and addressed his query in a manner that made it clear that it wasn’t a case the place Sabrina Carpenter put in a lackluster audition or did something particularly to persuade the producers to go along with another person. Quite, Cummings simply plainly said that she simply plainly did not match up with what they had been on the lookout for with Harris.
Eventual fan-fave star Emma Kenney wound up touchdown the position whereas she was nonetheless co-starring in Shameless, and whereas she would not essentially look precisely like Sara Gilbert, I dare say her tackle Harris is a extra plausible Conner household addition than anybody who may very well be described as “blonde and bubbly.” It’d nonetheless be cool to reside in a Sliding Doorways state of affairs the place we might see how the present would look with the “Please Please Please” singer within the Lanford clan.
After that massive of clarification, Whitney Cummings joked that she in all probability deserves some type of payoff from the pop star for not casting her on Roseanne forward of its eventual transition into The Conners, since her music profession may not have taken off fairly so strongly had she been placing in hours on a community sitcom. As Cummings put it:
I deserve a share of her touring cash for not hiring her. In any other case, she would nonetheless be on that present. You’re welcome, Sabrina.
For example, if Sabrina Carpenter was already too busy filming for The Conners‘ shortened, however event-sized closing season, she may not have been capable of movie her massive Nonsense Christmas particular, which is at present out there to stream with a Netflix subscription.
Although Cummings is not actively half of the present Conners workforce, hopefully somebody behind the scenes had the thought to get Carpenter concerned within the closing season when it filmed final 12 months. I imply, in all probability not, however there isn’t any hurt in wishing.