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Get acceptable for a carriage thrust backmost successful time! On Nov. 21, Disney announced that Brandy would beryllium returning to the relation of Cinderella, which she played successful 1997's Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
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It's clip to particulate disconnected those solid slippers.
Brandy, who became the archetypal Black histrion to represent Cinderella connected surface successful 1997's Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, volition instrumentality to the relation successful the upcoming Disney+ archetypal movie The Pocketwatch, the steamer announced Nov. 21.
The latest installment successful the Descendants franchise, The Pocketwatch volition besides prima Rita Ora as the Queen of Hearts who, according to the streamer, "rules implicit the kingdom of Wonderland with an robust fist."
Brandy and Rita volition beryllium joined by antecedently announced formed members Descendants 2 and Descendants 3 prima China Anne McClain, Gabby Duran and the Unsittables' Kylie Cantrall and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series' Dara Reneé.
The Descendants movie trilogy, which kicked disconnected successful 2015, introduced viewers to 2 caller lands—idyllic Auradon and the ragtag Isle of the Lost—which service arsenic the respective homes of the teenage descendants immoderate of Disney's astir iconic heroes and villains.
"The bold caller communicative of The Pocketwatch returns to these lands," according to the streamer, "and besides takes audiences done the rabbit spread to the hostile unincorporated territory of Wonderland, a magical, mysterious spot made celebrated successful Alice successful Wonderland."
May we suggest avoiding immoderate mysterious mushrooms.
"The expansive caller communicative finds polar opposites Red (Cantrall) and Chloe (Malia Baker) crossing paths astatine a momentous solemnisation successful Auradon erstwhile unexpected chaos breaks out," the streamer continued. "In bid to forestall an impending coup, they indispensable articulation forces to question backmost successful time, via a magical pouch ticker created by the Mad Hatter's son, to halt an lawsuit that would pb to sedate consequences."
Brandy starred alongside the precocious Whitney Houston, who played Fairy Godmother, successful 1997's Cinderella. In a 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Brandy reflected backmost connected Whitney being the 1 to recommend her for the role, saying, "It conscionable was unbelievable due to the fact that I spent my full puerility wanting to sing and cipher could person told maine successful a cardinal years I would beryllium moving with her."
She added, "[Whitney] had a magic astir her that I felt similar I could conscionable beryllium myself. When you're moving with your idols, you don't cognize however to act, but she made maine consciousness harmless to beryllium myself and truly springiness the quality each I could give."
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To hole for The Pocketwatch, you tin ticker Brandy successful Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, now streaming connected Disney+.
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