Melissa Joan Hart still gets paid for Crocodile Dundee - despite being cut from the film
Melissa Joan Hart has revealed she still receives tiny residual payments from Crocodile Dundee decades after her scenes were cut
Melissa Joan Hart still receives small residual payments from Crocodile Dundee - despite her scenes being cut from the 1986 film.
Despite not appearing in the comedy-adventure movie, which she shot when she was around 10 years old, the actress still gets paid "every few months" for her brief stint.
Speaking to Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea, Hart, 50, said: "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."
The star noted that her payments from Crocodile Dundee have "dwindled" over the years, but she and other actors have found a spot in Los Angeles where they can put their earnings to good use.
Hart said: "There’s actually a bar in LA called Residuals where you can take your residuals and put it toward your drinks."
Previously speaking on the Too Much Information podcast, the entertainer said she played a little girl whose grazed knee was healed by Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan) in Central Park.
The movie followed the Australian bushman who leaves the wilderness for New York and finds himself navigating an entirely different way of life.
The 1986 film was a huge success, grossing $328 million and becoming the second-highest-grossing movie in the US that year.
Its success spawned two sequels, although Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles was a critical and commercial flop.
Hart previously discussed being "cut out" of the movie, explaining that childhood acting taught her to handle rejection and develop a thick skin.
Speaking to SheKnows in 2011, she said: "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."
Hart ultimately landed her breakout role as Clarissa Darling in the Nickelodeon 1990s teen sitcom, Clarissa Explains It All, at the age of 15, then going on to play Sabrina Spellman in ABC’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
And although she appreciates how being a child star set her up for life at a young age, Hart did not like how growing up on TV sets held her back socially.
In February, she told People: "I think it gave me a good work ethic. I think it helped me kind of grow up quickly, learn some things about myself in the world, take care of myself and but also, in that way, it kind of stunted my growth in other ways, socially."
However, Hart has zero regrets because her parents - producer Paula Hart, 70, and 74-year-old actor William Hart - ensured that she did not miss out on childhood and was brought up with a sense of normalcy.
The star said: "I pretty much had a normal childhood, even though I was acting since I was four. So I don't regret anything.
"I think my family did a really good job … I was in Girl Scouts, and we would go on family ski trips and things like that. So there was a lot of normal mixed up with this weird, crazy world."
Hart - who was educated via on-set tutoring, which she insisted was never isolating - added: "I went to my boyfriend's prom. It wasn’t my prom, but I did get to go to a prom to witness that. So I had some moments."
