{"id":735662,"date":"2026-08-12T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:42:11","slug":"julie-andrews-announces-retirement-from-screen-roles-after-80-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735662\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Andrews announces retirement from screen roles after 80-year career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The forthcoming Princess Diaries sequel<\/a> has been dealt a royally bad blow \u2013 Dame Julie Andrews has turned down the new film<\/a> as she has retired from screen appearances.<\/p>\n

Mary Poppins and Sound of Music star Andrews, 90, starred in the first two films \u2013 released in 2001 and 2004 \u2013 as Queen Clarisse, but she said she has \u201cpassed\u201d up the chance to reprise the role, adding: \u201cI think I\u2019m retired, really, would be about the best description for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrews revealed she was asked \u201call last year\u201d if she \u201cwould be keen to do it\u201d, admitting that it \u201cwas very hard to say no\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"JulieJulie Andrews turned down many offers to return in ‘Princess Diaries 3’ (Disney)<\/p>\n

However, addressing why she ultimately rejected the offers, she told InStyle<\/a>: \u201cI thought I had a wonderful ride, and this one I felt would flourish very well and wouldn\u2019t need Granny going in there at my age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across a career spanning eight decades, Andrews has been handed many accolades, including an Academy Award, for Mary Poppins, seven Golden Globes, and three Tony nominations. In 2000, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II. <\/p>\n

Since the second Princess Diaries film, Andrews has pivoted exclusively to voiceover roles, in the Shrek and Despicable Me franchises, as well as Netflix series Bridgerton, in which she provides the voice for Lady Whistledown.<\/p>\n

In 2024, it was reported that The Princess Diaries 3 was in production<\/a>, with Adele Lim set to direct the return to Genovia \u2013 the world created by author Meg Cabot.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey<\/a> actor Anne Hathaway was set to star, but put the brakes on the project to shoot The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>, which was released in April. The actor said: \u201cIt cropped up unexpectedly and took over the space.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she revealed that \u201cthe intention is to make it hopefully next\u201d and stated: \u201cIf I learned anything from The Devil Wears Prada 2, it\u2019s that expectations are very, very high, and if you\u2019re going to do it, you have to knock it out of the park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cabot has confirmed that Robert Schwartzman and Chris Pine will reprise their roles as Hathaway\u2019s love interests, featured in the first two films.<\/p>\n

\"AnneAnne Hathaway will next star in \u2018Princess Diaries 3\u2019 (Reuters)<\/p>\n

The Princess Diaries, released in 2001, followed the Queen regent of Genovia (Julie Andrews) as she taught her granddaughter Mia (Hathaway) the ways of the throne. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, written by Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes, was released in 2004.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the potential third film in 2022, Andrews, 90, said that, while she would be \u201chappy\u201d to return, she would have concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite a long time now since the two Diaries were done, and I\u2019m not sure, but sometimes it\u2019s best to leave a good thing alone,\u201d she said, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t like it when people milk and milk and milk the subject, you know, \u2018til it\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}