Sometimes fan service is necessary when releasing a long-awaited sequel, which is why it's such a bummer that Thora Birch doesn't reprise her role in 2022's Hocus Pocus 2. Though she admitted she was "dismayed" that she couldn't be in the sequel, there are no hard feelings.

"There were three options we had for how to bring Dani back, all of which I was excited by," she told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet at the Variety Power of Women event. "But by the time they got around to filming, I was already on something else,” she explained. Ah, scheduling conflicts are to blame.

Despite not being able to reprise her iconic role, Thora will happily be watching the sequel – which premieres on Sept. 30, 2022 on Disney Plus – with the rest of us.

“I’m excited for the fans who have been begging for Hocus Pocus 2 for years. So yeah, I’ll be watching along with everybody else," she shared.

Regarding her overall life, she told The Guardian "I'm really lucky! ... I'm just cognizant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not, who knows."

Outside of her Hollywood career, Thora seems to have found joy with her husband Michael Benton Adler — aka her "perfect penguin" — whom she married in San Francisco circa December 2018.

"It's done! I'm a married woman now," she shared with her 10k followers on Twitter, the only social media, along with her Facebook fan page, that she has. "Thank you to all my fans for their positive energy! I felt it every second!"

While we hope to see The Walking Dead star in even more mainstream projects, we know we'll be revisiting Hocus Pocus this Halloween.