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Brandy to Play Cinderella AGAIN successful Disney's The Pocketwatch
It's impossible to not beryllium excited astir this reunion.
Just a fewer months aft it was revealed that Brandy is reprising her relation of Cinderella for Descendants: The Rise of Red, Disney+ announced that Paolo Montalban, who played her Prince Charming much than 2 decades ago, is joining the cast.
And now, fans are getting their archetypal sneak peek of the co-stars connected the acceptable of the caller film. A video shared to Disney+'s authoritative Twitter relationship showed Brandy wearing a beauteous bluish ballgown and sparkly crown portion Paolo, now King Charming, donned his handsome royal attire implicit with golden trim and buttons.
Brandy and Paolo were portion of the star-studded formed of the 1997 movie Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, which besides featured Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopi Goldberg as the king and queen, Jason Alexander as their royal herald and the late Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother.
And if you're wondering however the fairytale mates is doing these days, Disney+'s property merchandise says King Charming is "as overmuch successful emotion with Cinderella as he ever was" and that they're parents to their "perfectionist" girl Chloe, played by Malia Baker.
A royal occasion. ✨ King Charming (@PaoloMontalban) and Cinderella (@4everBrandy) person joined the upcoming Original movie, #DisneyDescendants: Rise of Red! pic.twitter.com/EsBxOqyr7q
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) March 22, 2023Disney+ has besides shared that Rita Ora is playing the Queen of Hearts and that Kylie Cantrall is portraying her "rebellious" girl Red successful the caller film.
The Descendants movies are acceptable successful the lands of Auradon and the Isle of the Lost. And according to Disney+'s release, fans volition besides beryllium led down "the rabbit spread to the hostile unincorporated territory of Wonderland" from Alice successful Wonderland.
"When the tyrannical Queen of Hearts incites a coup against Auradon," the merchandise says, "polar opposites Red and Chloe indispensable articulation forces and question backmost successful clip to undo the traumatic lawsuit that acceptable Red's parent down her villainous path."
Other formed members include China Anne McClain as Uma, Dara Reneé as Uliana, Ruby Rose Turner as the Young Queen of Hearts, Morgan Dudley as Young Cinderella, Joshua Colley as Hook, Melanie Paxson as the fairy godmother, Jeremy Swift as Principal Merlin and Leonardo Nam as Maddox Hatter.
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While a merchandise day for Descendants: The Rise of Red has yet to beryllium revealed, Brandy has antecedently discussed what playing Cinderella successful the 1997 movie meant to her.
"It meant everything to maine due to the fact that archetypal of each I got to enactment with my puerility idols Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters," she said connected a 2021 occurrence of The View. "But to beryllium casted arsenic the archetypal Black princess successful a multicultural formed and divers artists telling this amazing, iconic story—at the time, I didn't truly grasp it each due to the fact that my dreams were coming existent astatine the aforesaid time."
She added, "But the interaction that it had connected maine and the lives of truthful galore families and girls that look similar me, it was conscionable unbelievable."
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