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\n“There’s nothing cringe about just really liking and loving each other,” said Sanda Bullock as she joined co-star Nicole Kidman in London’s Leicester Square on Wednesday for the premiere<\/p>\n
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reunite to reprise the roles of cursed witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens in Practical Magic 2, a sequel that arrives in cinemas almost three decades after the \u2060original film.<\/p>\n
Watch: The trailer for Practical Magic 2<\/p>\n
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Practical Magic was released to a lukewarm reception in 1998 but has gained a cult following among fans over the years.<\/p>\n
The long-awaited follow-up focuses on the magical family’s multi-generational challenges.<\/p>\n
\n“There’s nothing cringe about just really liking and loving each other,” said Sanda Bullock as she joined co-star Nicole Kidman in London’s Leicester Square on Wednesday for the premiere<\/p>\n
Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest return as the eccentric aunts Frances and Jet, with Joey King and Maisie Williams playing Sally’s daughters Kylie and Antonia.<\/p>\n
Bullock and Kidman also produced the film, which marks Bullock’s return to acting after a four-year break.<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of extraordinary that we get to bring it back. If you told us 28 years ago \u200cthat as women, we would \u2060still be able to star in a huge studio movie and carry it, we wouldn’t have believed it,” Kidman said at the film’s European premiere in London on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“We’re hoping we pass the baton to our beautiful baby witches and at the same time, it’s so lovely still being given the spotlight.”<\/p>\n
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\n(L-R) Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing return as the eccentric aunts Jet and Frances<\/p>\n
Set some 25 years after the events \u200cof the original film, the sequel follows the Owens women as they join forces to break the spell that renders them loveless.<\/p>\n
The reunion felt easy, \u2060like “silk off a spool”, said Channing and Wiest, and was all down to the fans.<\/p>\n
“They \u200casked for this to be done. This is all based on popular demand,” said \u2060Channing.<\/p>\n
“It wouldn’t \u200chave happened without this groundswell. And it has something to do with women supporting other women, women coming together as sisters,” Wiest said.<\/p>\n
The sequel is based on Alice Hoffman’s 2021 novel The Book of Magic and also stars Lee Pace, Xolo \u2060Maridue\u00f1a and Solly McLeod.<\/p>\n
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\n(L-R) Joey King and Maisie Williams play Sally’s (Sandra Bullock) daughters Kylie and Antonia<\/p>\n
Directed by the award-winning Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier (Brothers, Bird Box, The Night Manager), it doesn’t abandon “the flavour” of the first film, \u2060said Bullock.<\/p>\n
“It had something that has to continue for each generation and if there’s a number three, it has to still be there; the honouring of the flavour, the dynamic between the two of us, the humour, not being afraid to go into the dark and the tragic moments, and there’s a lot of unabashed loving,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There’s nothing cringe about just really liking and loving each other.”<\/p>\n
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\nPractical Magic 2 is directed by the award-winning Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier (Brothers, Bird Box, The Night Manager)<\/p>\n
Practical Magic 2 begins its global cinema rollout on 9 September. <\/p>\n
Source: Reuters<\/p>\n