{"id":396469,"date":"2026-01-09T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:32:10","slug":"kathryn-hahn-in-talks-to-play-mother-gothel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396469\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn Hahn In Talks To Play Mother Gothel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: A wish from the internet is coming true: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kathryn-hahn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kathryn-hahn\" data-tag=\"kathryn-hahn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Hahn<\/a> is in talks with Disney to play Mother Gothel in the studio\u2019s live-action take of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tangled\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tangled\" data-tag=\"tangled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tangled<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGothel is the antagonist in the original 2010 animated movie, known for her manipulative tendencies and obsession with youth, which she maintains through magical powers in Rapunzel\u2019s hair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline first told you that development on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/tangled-scarlett-johansson-resumes-development-1236574770\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tangled was revived in October when Scarlett Johansson began circling the role of Mother Gothel.<\/a> The two-time Oscar nominee had to back away from any consideration for the part due to her future production schedules on Batman II and The Exorcist reboot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen news broke about Johansson\u2019s interest in Mother Gothel, fans began to lobby online for the WandaVision and Agatha All Along actress Hahn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNews about Hahn follows the recent announcement that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/teagan-croft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teagan Croft<\/a>\u00a0(Titans) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/milo-manheim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milo Manheim<\/a>\u00a0(Zombies\u00a0franchise) are playing Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, respectively. Rider is the thief who helps the princess escape the tower in which he\u2019s stuck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Greatest Showman\u00a0director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/tangled-michael-gracey-circling-live-action-disney-film-director-1236200855\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gracey<\/a>\u00a0is still attached to direct, working from a script by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson based on the 2010 animated feature that grossed close to $592 million worldwide. Kristin Burr will produce for Burr! Productions, with Lucy Kitada executive producing. The original movie notched an Oscar nomination for the original song \u201cI See the Light,\u201d and had music by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHahn is a four-time Emmy nominee most recently for supporting actress comedy in Apple TV\/Lionsgate\u2019s The Studio, for Lead Actress in Anthology or Limited Series or Movie for Tiny Beautiful Things, for Supporting Actress for Limited Anthology Series or Movie for WandaVision, and in the category of Supporting Actress Comedy Series for Transparent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe is represented by Gersh, Lighthouse Management &amp; Media, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin &amp; Dunham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney did not respond for request to comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: A wish from the internet is coming true: Kathryn Hahn is in talks with Disney to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,62915,114051],"class_list":["post-396469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-kathryn-hahn","tag-tangled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}