{"id":64045,"date":"2025-10-09T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64045\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:15:07","slug":"selena-gomez-more-on-season-2-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64045\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez, More On Season 2 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 2 premiere of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place had quite the reveal in store for its Season 2 finale.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final episode of the sophomore season, which debuted on Disney+ Wednesday, audiences finally find out why Alex Russo (Selena Gomez<\/a>) has been so committed to protecting Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown). Billie is, in fact, Alex\u2019s daughter. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe truth is revealed no only to the audience but also to all of the characters in the final moments of the two-part finale \u2014 even Alex, who had used a memory wiping spell on herself, Billie and Justin (David Henrie<\/a>) after dropping Billie off at Wiz Tech in order to keep her safe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cObviously, she had to make a hard choice as a mom to protect her child,\u201d Gomez said of Alex\u2019s decision to part ways with her daughter. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe and Brown spoke about filming the reveal in the featurette above, shared exclusively with Deadline. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe scene, during the group\u2019s final confrontation with an evil wizard named Lord Morsus (one of many who has it out for the Russos, apparently), is quite the tearjerker. Alex, Justin, Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and Milo (Max Matenko) are all tied to chairs, watching helplessly as Lord Morsus forces Billie to help him open a portal that will connect their world and the world of dark magic.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlex begins to cry as she watches Billie, and the single tear that streaks down her face lands on the Penwolf locket she\u2019d acquired from the gossip stone earlier in the episode. The locket opens, revealing the memory of Alex and Justin dropping Billie at Wiz Tech before wiping their memories to everyone in the room.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was very emotional,\u201d Brown says of the scene, to which Gomez adds: \u201cWe were just puddles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce Milo manages to get everyone untied, there is only one way to close the portal: from the inside. Alex sacrifices herself, tackling Morsus and tossing them both into the portal. After it closes behind them, the Russo family vows to find her.<\/p>\n

\n\tWizards Beyond Waverly Place has yet to be renewed for a third season. However, the Season 2 cliffhanger definitely leaves the door open for more story to come.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if you picked up on this, one of the little easter eggs in the scene where Selena goes back in time\u2026she\u2019s wearing a wedding ring. So a big thing for us is: Who was her husband? Who is Billie\u2019s father?\u201d Henrie told Deadline during a recent interview about the season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn order to answer those questions, Henrie says subsequent seasons will \u201cretrace Alex\u2019s footsteps\u201d to understand her past. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a lot there to play with that provokes these bigger questions around identity, legacy, [and] belonging for Billie and for all the Russos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiving into Alex\u2019s past also likely means revisiting some of the characters from Wizards of Waverly Place who might\u2019ve played a part. Henrie teases, \u201cthere\u2019s going to be a lot of organic opportunities for original characters from the original show to come back into the equation.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tGomez has thus far only briefly appeared in a few episodes, but, until now, Alex\u2019s involvement in the characters\u2019 stories was also fairly limited.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe path the story has now taken deepens Alex\u2019s connection to the show quite deeply, naturally setting the stage for the star and executive producer to return for another season of Wizards Beyond, at least in the guest star capacity she has for the first two, if not in an expanded role. <\/p>\n

\n\tIf Gomez\u2019s own sentiments are any indication, though, it won\u2019t take a mental magic spell to keep her on board for more. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s actually really fun for me to come back and hang out with you guys. It\u2019s honestly been nostalgic for me,\u201d Gomez says in the video above, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s honestly been a wonderful experience. It\u2019s so fun to see us pass the baton to a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 2 premiere of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. EXCLUSIVE: Wizards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,46920,15321,146,85,46,7902,46921],"class_list":{"0":"post-64045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-david-henrie","10":"tag-disney-channel","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-selena-gomez","15":"tag-wizards-beyond-waverly-place"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}