Melissa Joan Hart still collects residuals from “Crocodile Dundee” — even though her scenes were “cut” from the 1986 film.
The beloved actress — who stars in the new HGTV series, “Totally ’90s House” — opened up to Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” about the shocking amount of money she still receives from the comedy movie.
“I was in ‘Crocodile Dundee,’ and even though you will not see my face in it — I was cut out — I still get my 26 cents every few months or something,” Hart, 50, told us.
Hart said the payments “dwindle” as the years pass, though she noted that one Los Angeles bar has found a way to make them count.
“There’s actually a bar in LA called Residuals where you can take your residuals and put it toward your drinks,” she mused.
Hart was around 10 years old when she filmed her unused scenes for “Crocodile Dundee.” She reportedly played a little girl who was miraculously healed by Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee after skinning her knee in Central Park, according to iHeartRadio’s “Too Much Information” podcast.
The “Melissa & Joey” star previously talked about getting “cut out” of the film while discussing the lessons she learned as a child actor in a 2011 interview with SheKnows.
“You find that you have a lot of rejection and you learn young that you have to let it go, and if you don’t have thick skin, you aren’t going to make it,” she said at the time.
Hart ultimately landed her breakout role as the titular character in Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains It All,” which ran for five seasons from 1991 to 1994.
She went on to play Sabrina Spellman in ABC’s “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” for seven seasons from 1996 to 2000.
In recent years, Hart has starred in a number of Lifetime movies, including “The Bad Guardian,” “Killing the Competition” and “Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story.”
However, Hart’s latest project for HGTV finds her utilizing her side passion for interior design.
Hosted by Jaleel White, “Totally ’90s House” follows a group of iconic ’90s stars — including Hart, Jodie Sweetin, Matthew Lawrence, Joey Lawrence, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Brian Austin Green and Beverley Mitchell — as they compete to modernize a house that’s still stuck in the 1990s.
The winning team will win $25,000 for a charity of their choosing.
“Totally ’90s House” premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on HGTV.
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