The 51-year-old actress played Libby on the beloved series, which ran from 1996 to 2003
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- Jenna Leigh Green reflected on playing Libby at the Sabrina the Teenage Witch 30th reunion in Chicago
- Green said playing a mean girl was fun because the character didn’t realize she was mean
- The cast celebrated the show’s lasting impact as fans continue introducing it to a new generation of viewers
Jenna Leigh Green says it was “so much fun” playing a mean girl on Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
While catching up with PEOPLE at the Sabrina the Teenage Witch 30th reunion show, Green, 51, reflects on what it was like playing Libby Chessler in the beloved series, which ran for seven seasons from 1996 to 2003.
“Who wouldn't want to go to work every single day and just get to be so rotten and so mean and say it with a smile so that you kind of had that air of like, ‘Wait, did she really just say that?' " Green shares. "Then they said cut at the end of the day, and we all went and got a burger."
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Green's character, the popular head cheerleader, often picked on Sabrina, played by Melissa Joan Hart, and was therefore on the receiving end of Sabrina's spells.
Green says that playing Libby was “so fun," since she got "to live out these dreams of the mean girl” and that “the real mean girls have no idea that they're mean girls, which is why anyone else who was possibly bullied or had to deal with those girls in school could watch it and they knew what it was.”
“Because when you are that girl, you don't think you're that girl," she explains.
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The cast of Sabrina the Teenage Witch reunited on June 13 in Chicago, bringing together Green, Melissa Joan Hart, Nate Richert, Beth Broderick, Caroline Rhea, Soleil Moon Frye, Michelle Beaudoin, and David Lascher.
Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the show, Green jokes, “I actually don't quite believe that it's true because I mean, we're barely 30 ourselves.”
However, she goes on to admit that it feels “insane” that “a show like this still resonates.”
“We get to hear from so many wonderful fans who are telling us that they are introducing the show to their kids," she tells PEOPLE. "The fact that the show just had such staying power and it had just a style to it and a message to it that is kind of timeless, and people can still watch it today and enjoy it just like they did in 1999."
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