Sabrina Carpenter might need stated “Please Please Please” to The Conners’ casting brokers, however former showrunner Whitney Cummings is glad the pop star didn’t get a component on the Roseanne spinoff.
Cummings revealed the casting near-miss with Individuals final week at ELLE’s Girls in Hollywood Celebration in Beverly Hills, California.
Whereas reflecting on getting comfy with rejection in Hollywood — which she deemed one of many largest classes she has discovered about showbiz — Cummings shared that Carpenter auditioned on the day they had been casting the a part of Harris Conner-Healy on the Roseanne revival. Emma Kenney was ultimately forged in that function, and the revival aired one season as Roseanne earlier than being rebooted as The Conners with out Roseanne Barr.
“Sabrina Carpenter auditioned … and it wasn’t the precise match,” Cummings stated. “She obtained a rejection that day once we had been casting the daughter.”
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However Cummings is glad that Carpenter missed out — as a result of it means Carpenter was free to change into the profitable recording artist she is immediately. “Thank God we stated no to her,” Cummings stated. “As a result of she’d be caught on a sitcom set and never being Sabrina Carpenter.”
Cummings provides: “I believe that we’re nonetheless skilled in our society to wish to win and get a sure. Typically a sure is the worst factor you may get, as a result of then you definately’re caught on the unsuitable present for 7 years. You’re within the unsuitable factor.”
Carpenter, who rose to prominence as an actor in Disney Channel’s Lady Meets World, has had a banner 12 months in 2024. Her sixth album Brief n’ Candy turned her first No. 1 album, debuting atop the Billboard 200 this September and topping that chart for 4 weeks. That album boasts the hit songs “Espresso,” “Style,” and the No. 1 single “Please Please Please.”
Now Carpenter is up for six Grammy Awards: Greatest Pop Vocal Album, Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency (for “Espresso”), Track of the Yr (for “Please Please Please”), Report of the Yr (for “Espresso”), Album of the Yr, and Greatest New Artist.
The Conners, in the meantime, is heading into its closing season, which can premiere on ABC subsequent March.
The Conners, Season 7 Premiere, March 2025, ABC