![]() It’s a dream role.īrooks: I feel like those Hex Girls are the coolest characters I’ve ever played. The fact that they’re a group of strong women having a blast doing something they love, and then there’s the obvious, giant, all-caps “YES PLEASE” that I get to sing and do awesome stuff. ![]() Hale: When I look back on my career, Thorn definitely holds a very special place in my heart. While the Hex Girls spin-off hasn’t (yet) materialised, the band have reappeared here and there throughout the years – in series including What’s New Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated. I’d be 30 minutes early with coffee for everyone.īrooks: There’s still time, right? I don’t know who to talk to – I need to call my agent, somebody needs to get the ball rolling here! Hale: I’d be there with bells on! I’d be beating down the door. ![]() I live in Mexico, but I would totally fly back every time to LA to do the episodes. It’s such an easy sell! If it happened I would be so excited. Wiedlin: I absolutely think they could have their own show! Every time they could introduce a new song and they could be the defenders of the planet plus do rock concerts. it was one of those Hollywood meetings that never really went anywhere. You can imagine my excitement! Oh my god, doing a girl band series! And they wanted David and I to develop it. But the movie was very popular so was silenced by the DVD sales, I believe.Ĭopp: They had found that there was a lot of chatter about the Hex Girls from the movie, and I remember my friend Linda Steiner brought me in for a meeting to talk about a spin-off series. It was all “Scooby-Doo is a devil worshipper!” and stuff like that. Upon its release in October 1999, Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost proved slightly controversial due to its content – the film saw Scooby and the gang reading from spell books, while the Hex Girls were proudly Wiccan and believed in the religion being a force for good rather than evil.Ĭopp: The only blowback we got was from conservative parents because we were “promoting Wicca”. It was really fun to write a song for a cartoon. You never know, maybe in the future it will happen again. Every single time I’ve gone into the studio to record my voice, I always say, “Don’t forget, I’m a songwriter if you ever need any Hex Girls songs!” So far it hasn’t worked. Everyone sort of stays in their lane, including me. Wiedlin: As a life-long songwriter and musician, I always sort of thought, “Oh, they’re gonna come to me for tips and they’re gonna run these songs by me and see what I think.” But it hasn’t been like that at all, because I was hired as an actor, and not a musician and a songwriter. And Jane Wiedlin, of The Go-Go’s and a solo music career that included pop classics “Rush Hour” and “Blue Kiss”, was cast as drummer Dusk. Relative newcomer Kimberly Brooks, who has gone on to an illustrious voiceover career in film, television and video games, was cast as keyboardist Luna. Famed voiceover actor Jennifer Hale, best known at the time for voicing Felicia Hardy on the classic Nineties Spider-Man series, was recruited to play lead vocalist Thorn. So naturally I was like, “We have to have a girl band!” I remember coming up with the name Hex Girls and I kept thinking: “Is it too simple? Is it not clever enough?”Ĭasting began in earnest in early 1999, with producers searching for voiceover actors who could project strength and spunk, and hold a note. But I was also fascinated by this group of girls travelling the world and getting involved in criminal conspiracies. I was a little gay kid and I think it was that girl power that appealed to me. Voiced by Jennifer Hale, Kimberly Brooks and singer/songwriter Jane Wiedlin, who came to fame in the pioneering new wave rock band The Go-Go’s, the Hex Girls were comprised of Wiccan musicians Thorn, Dusk and Luna – self-described “eco-goths” determined to protect the environment, who sported stick-in vampire teeth and possessed a direct line to the spirit world.Ĭopp: Growing up, I was a huge fan of Josie and the Pussycats. But there was something about their rebellious, outspoken and vaguely homoerotic energy tenhat struck a chord. Debuting in Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost, a more straight-faced and late-Nineties take on the classic Scooby characters, The Hex Girls were only ever intended to be mysterious, guitar-shredding red herrings in a single movie – suspects in the rumoured sighting of a ghoul haunting a New England museum. In 1999, a fictional pop-rock band in a straight-to-VHS Scooby-Doo movie made every queer, goth and/or weirdo child feel seen.
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