But the biggest was certainly the addition of Sawa.
Decades later, though, he admits it’s not in regular rotation for his kids Hudson, 12, and Scarlett, 10.
“I have a video somewhere of my son seeing it—he didn’t get it,” theCoven Academy star admitted to E! News in 2022. “I think he was 4 at the time when he watched it and he was like ‘Oh my God! The kid comes down the stairs and it’s such a great moment,’ but I don’t think he clued in to, ‘That’s my dad!’ And we haven’t revisited it since. We don’t revisit a lot of my movies. A lot of movies don’t age well.”
Beg to differ, sir. Beg to differ.
So, let’s celebrate spooky season with 25 fun facts you might not know about Casper, including the secret on-set crush and the failed attempt to make a sequel…
(Originallypublished Oct. 29, 2023, at 12 a.m. PT)