Actress Thora Birch opened up about her sexual identity while showing support for the LGBTQ+ community.
The Hocus Pocus star revealed that she is bisexual during an appearance at The Abbey’s 35th anniversary celebration in West Hollywood on May 20.
While talking to Us Weekly at the event, Birch reflected on the role the LGBTQ+ community has played in her life.
“As a hometown girl, I’m always here to show my support for the community that shaped so much of who I am and my identity as well, being a bi person,” she told the paper.
The actress is also urging people to support each other in a time she described as increasingly divisive.
“I don’t want to get too political, but find your community where you can and stand with them and stick with them and share the love that you share together and reach out to others,” Birch added.
She continued: “The only way we’re going to get through all this craziness is to just embrace each other. We’ve got to stop fighting.”
Birch has been a familiar face to cinemagoers since the 1990s and has starred in films including Now and then and Disney’s Hocus Pocus. During the interview, she reflected on some of the characters that helped define her career and wondered where they might be today.
“I feel like so many of my fans wonder about, of course, Dani (from) Hocus Pocus,” she said. “I feel like Teeny, we know what happened to her so it’s good.”
Birch did not return as Dani Dennison in the 2022s Hocus Pocus 2but she has previously expressed interest in revisiting the character.
After the announcement of a third film in the franchise, Birch told Entertainment tonight in October 2025 that she would be open to starring in the sequel.
“I want to know what they land on for how Dani ended up,” she said at the time. “I’m super open to the idea. They like to talk about it, so we’ll see.”
While Birch was not in the sequel, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy reprise their roles as the Sanderson Sisters.
Midler has previously appeared on Andy Cohen’s See what’s happening live in October 2025 and revealed that she saw a script for the third film.
“They sent a script and a lot of it was brilliant,” she noted.
Midler continued, “So I got very excited, and now we’re trying to figure out what it is and where it’s going to be and how much it’s going to cost and all the logistical stuff.”
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