Whitney Cummings says rejecting Sabrina Carpenter from "The Conners" was the best thing that could have happened to the pop star.
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00:00I saw that Sabrina Carpenter could have been on the Connors, you know, your show
00:09and you're a showrunner on there. How did that actually go down because I
00:13know she didn't end up getting the role.
00:18I mean, not because she couldn't do it. Sabrina Carpenter, I'm such a big fan. I've been such a big fan for so long.
00:25And when she came in to audition for the Roseanne reboot to play Darlene's daughter, she was amazing, but
00:33we needed like a little more like darkness.
00:37And she just is like, she like radiates light. She came in and like blinded us with her.
00:45It just, it didn't feel... It didn't work. It didn't work.
00:49It's like, I mean, I don't have to tell you part of the reason, you know, so many of us in Hollywood
00:54develop drug addictions is because you don't get jobs you deserve for reasons out of your control.
00:59So she came in and it was just like, it was also so clear that she was Sabrina Carpenter.
01:04It was like, what are you doing here? Get out of here.
01:07Like, you know, she was already touring. She was already selling out, you know, arenas and stuff like that.
01:12You know, so it's one of those things where rejection really is God's protection.
01:17And I would like to take credit for...
01:20Does she owe you a thank you?
01:22I feel like I deserve commission on her touring.
01:26If we had said yes, which I really wanted to, I was like, we'll make it work.
01:31We'll put freckles on her. We'll do something.
01:33You know, we'll make it so she can't sleep, so she has a darker energy or something.
01:38And because she'd still be on that show right now.
01:41Right, right. And it was just like a full-time situation.
01:44And not touring. Yeah, she would still be on the Conners right now.
01:47And she escaped the Roseanne tweet drama too.
01:50Yeah, she would have been in the...
01:53Yeah, we would have been, hey, hey, what you think about Roseanne's tweet?
01:56Her whole life, her number one Google search would be Roseanne Brace's tweet.
02:00So she dodged a million bullets.
02:03How about some free tickets? How about some free tickets?
02:05How about it?
02:06How about some, like, I don't know.
02:09Receipts? I don't know.
02:11Hey, give her a call, Sabrina.
02:12I feel like the people that say no to you are way more important in your career than the people that say yes sometimes.
02:18She just had a big breakup. It's, like, public.
02:20Any advice?
02:22You've probably been through a couple.
02:23Block them.
02:24Block them.
02:25Block a bitch.
02:26Block a bitch.
02:27Hey, thank you so much. You're the best.