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Sarah Jessica Parker says a sequel to The Family Stone is a ‘bittersweet quandary’ following Diane Keaton’s death<\/p>\n Sarah Jessica Parker says a sequel to The Family Stone is a ‘bittersweet quandary’ following Diane Keaton’s death<\/p>\n
Sarah Jessica Parker says a sequel to The Family Stone is a “bittersweet quandary” following Diane Keaton’s death.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old actress “hopes” the follow-up movie to the beloved 2005 Christmas classic will still be made, despite the iconic actress – who played Sybil Stone in the festive film – passing away in October aged 79.<\/p>\n
She told Variety: “I\u2019m so excited \u2026 but it\u2019s a rather bittersweet quandary given the loss of Diane Keaton.<\/p>\n
“But it was a very special group of actors, and prior to Diane\u2019s passing, there had been conversations with everybody, so I hope that we\u2019ll be able to.<\/p>\n
“The hardest thing is everybody\u2019s schedules.”<\/p>\n
Parker also confirmed Bette Midler and co are still “working” on a third Hocus Pocus movie, and she joked the 80-year-old is like an excited teenager when it comes to the film.<\/p>\n
She added: “They\u2019re working on it. Where Better [Midler] goes, I go.<\/p>\n
“Bette is like a 13-year-old girl with a new bike.<\/p>\n
“She\u2019s like, ‘I have wheels, let us travel.’ “<\/p>\n
In October, Midler teased the script for Hocus Pocus 3 is “brilliant”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Watch What Happens Live, she said: \u201cWell, you know, they sent a script, and a lot of it was brilliant. So I got very excited.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now we\u2019re trying to figure out what it is and where it\u2019s going to be and how much it\u2019s going to cost and all those logistical things.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the 1993 original, Midler, Parker and Kathy Najimy appeared as the Sanderson sisters, a trio of witches who were resurrected on a Halloween night.<\/p>\n
Previously, Midler – who reprised her role as witch Winifred ‘Winnie’ Sanderson in the successful fantasy comedy sequel in 2022 – urged Disney to hurry up with Hocus Pocus 3 while the cast are “still breathing”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Busy Philipps’ QVC+ talk show Busy This Week, she said: “I haven’t seen the script, but, I’ve heard rumblings.<\/p>\n
“I think if they’re gonna, they oughta, because time is not just marching, time is barrelling to the finish line.<\/p>\n
“Get us while we’re still breathing, I mean, God!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Jessica Parker says a sequel to The Family Stone is a ‘bittersweet quandary’ following Diane Keaton’s death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[251,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,437,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-221344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-app","16":"tag-news-headlines","17":"tag-news-today","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}