The Craft Star Fairuza Balk’s Rare Selfie Is Simply Spellbinding

‘The Craft’ Star Fairuza Balk’s Rare Selfie Is Simply Spellbinding

Fairuza Balk is as magical as ever.

The Craft alum gave fans a glimpse into her private life, sharing a rare selfie on Instagram that showed the horror icon wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat and smiling for the camera.

“Still haven’t learned how to use the filters yet hahahaha,” Fairuza wrote in the caption, “sun hat for a sunny day, just saying Hello and sending you guys my love xoxo.”

The 52-year-old also put a caption over the photo, writing, “Love you guys, just wanted to say that.”

While Fairuza was a staple of the big screen during the 1990s and early 2000s—starring in films like American History X, The Waterboy and Almost Famous—she took a hiatus from Hollywood in recent years, last appearing on screen in the 2021 show Paradise City.

“I had to step back for my own well-being and sense of self-preservation,” she explained to The Los Angeles Times in 2020. “Because I’ve given everything to my career, it came before everything for most of my life. And at a certain point, you have to remember that there is life outside of ‘Get the job, do the job.’ There are other elements.”

For Fairuza, those other elements included painting, writing, music and jewelry making—all of which made her “far happier.”

“I don’t think I so much stepped away from acting as I became more selective,” she explained. “I love to do the actual work but the rest of it is not suited to everybody.”

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Still, she is grateful to have worked on a film like 1996’s The Craft and witness the film’s enduring popularity that even spawned a 2020 sequel series The Craft: Legacy. (Fairuza was the only original Craft cast member to cameo in the sequel.)

“It’s surprising,” she said of the movie's legacy. “At the time when we made this, I really had no idea it would land so hugely and it would be so influential to people. To my mind, it had no gravitas. But that’s what’s cool about art ... it affects everybody differently.”

And she feels similarly about 1985’s Return to Oz—her big screen debut—in which she starred as Dorothy Gale.

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“It’s very interesting because at the time that the film was released, all the press said, ‘Oh it’s much too scary and there’s no singing and dancing, it’s like a surrealist piece,’” she recalled. “And at the time, I was terribly hurt by that and I assumed that nobody saw it.”

However, Fairuza later learned that the reaction from fans was actually “the opposite.”

She added, “Millions of people loved that film and still love that film and are obsessed with that film.”

To see more stars who also made the decision to step back from Hollywood, keep reading.

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