As Ryan Reynolds grew up in Canada, where the 1996 "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" TV movie was filmed, he enjoyed showing Melissa Joan Hart around his home turf. "Ryan and I worked really well together. We had a lot of fun in Vancouver — he's from there,— and he'd just show me around," Hart told news.au. She added, "He and I would take off on the weekends and go to Seattle for music festivals."
Per E! News, on the last day of filming for the movie, Reynolds gifted Hart a Bulova watch, and, despite having a serious boyfriend at the time, she had quite the reaction. "I chased [Reynolds] down, got in front of his car and just kissed him and then made out with him all night," she told Giuliana Rancic during a 2014 E! News interview. "Then I had to call my boyfriend the next day and explain it."
Although Reynolds later came to visit her in New York, they weren't on the same page and she ended up staying with the boyfriend. In her 2013 memoir "Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life," Hart revealed that she did have some regrets. She wrote (via People), "[Reynolds] probably would have been a great boyfriend. And I didn't end up with the other guy, so maybe I should have taken a chance!"
