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HBO Max Witch Hazel turns beautiful â and into June Foray â in ''Broom-Stick Bunny'' In "Broom-Stick Bunny," Witch Hazel accidentally transforms into a beauty instead of the hag she wants to be, and in this dolled-up form, Foray was surprised to see a reflection of herself on the screen. "The hairpins flying," Foray laughed, describing the comedy of the character. The Looney Tunes version of Witch Hazel casts spells to keep herself very ugly, and her wild hair was a funny focal point for fans. "People remember that Witch Hazel a little more," Foray said. Of the two, Foray said the Bugs Bunny character is the one fans remember best. "When I did the Witch Hazel for Chuck, I made her very humorous," Foray said. To differentiate her Disney Witch Hazel from her Bugs Bunny Witch Hazel, Foray said she gave the Disney character a British accent and the Bugs character an American accent. To resolve her own internal conflict over the duplication, she created a twist in cartoon history that still confuses some kids who loved both versions of Witch Hazel, the one in Bugs Bunny cartoons and the one in Disney cartoons.įoray apparently had not noticed that Bugs Bunny had already introduced a version of Witch Hazel voiced by Bea Benaderet in the 1954 short "Bewitched Bunny." Foray became the second voice for the second Witch Hazel with "Broom-Stick Bunny." "Disney couldn't copyright it," Foray said. Disney's version of the character was modeled after a nurse named Hazel employed by Disney who everybody loved, while Jones' character was simply a pun on the plant that many believe powerfully wards off infections. It turned out that Disney didn't have the rights to Witch Hazel because medicinal products that used a flower called witch hazel as a primary ingredient had already used the name "Witch Hazel" for various branded items. "I thought: How can he do that, did he buy the rights from Disney?" Foray said. He wanted her to reimagine a character named Witch Hazel that she had voiced in Disney's Donald Duck cartoons.
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It turned out that he wanted to cast Foray for a very specific reason. When Foray met Bugs Bunny director Chuck Jones, she didn't know exactly what kind of character he had in mind for her to play.
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"Oh my god! Bugs Bunny! I mean, everybody loves him all over the world," Foray recalled saying in an interview with Emmy TV Legends. "How would you like to work with Bugs Bunny?" June Foray’s agent asked her in 1954.