Is 'Hocus Pocus 3' in our midst? HL spoke EXCLUSIVELY with 'Hocus Pocus 2' star Whitney Peak about becoming a member of the sequel, sisterhood, and that 'Hocus Pocus 2' ending. SPOILERS!
After ready a long time, Hocus Pocus 2 has lastly arrived with new and acquainted faces. The Sanderson sisters discover themselves in 2022 Salem after two younger ladies, Becca and Izzy, by chance mild the Black Flame candle and revive the witchy trio. Whitney Peak performs Becca, a fiercely unbiased teenager with a love for the spooky aspect of life.
Whitney advised HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY throughout the Hocus Pocus 2 press junket that it was “terrifying in a bizarre approach” to see Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in character because the Sanderson sisters for the primary time “as a result of they’re so good at what they do. I imply, it’s arduous to see them as simply their particular person selves. Sarah Jessica and Bette and Kathy, it’s arduous to see them after they have the costumes and never be intimidated by them.”
She added, “It was very, very cool to look at them carry out and be in character and simply out and in of it. It was simply very admirable.”
The ending of the movie options Winifred enacting an omnipotent spell, which causes her to lose Sarah and Mary. After realizing that she will’t stay with out them, Winifred rejoins her sisters. “My powers are nothing with out my sisters,” Winifred says close to tears. She leaves E book behind with Becca, Izzy, and Cassie.
There's a pivotal post-credits scene that reveals Gilbert’s cat Cobweb strolling across the magic store. Cobweb crosses paths with a field that learn “Black Flame candle #2.” HollywoodLife needed to ask Whitney if she’d return for a doable Hocus Pocus 3.
“I imply, I might be down. However I don’t know if there's. I really feel like everyone retains asking me and I’m like, there's form of a post-credits scene that leaves the door open, however you didn’t hear from me,” the Gossip Woman alum quipped. She famous that she seen that closing scene “as there was perhaps doubtlessly a second black flame candle, and anyone’s going to should mild it.”
Becca, Izzy, and Cassie might completely be the subsequent era of witches if the Hocus Pocus universe needs to broaden. “Possibly it’s my flip to place some children in place,” Whitney stated.
The actress revealed if she felt any strain about her position in Hocus Pocus 2, one of the vital highly-anticipated Disney sequels. “I feel undoubtedly, initially, it was bizarre as a result of I had additionally simply completed the primary season of Gossip Woman, which additionally had like a cult following,” the 19-year-old stated. “That was getting into one thing that already has such an enormous status, and so it was form of, okay, right here we go once more. I form of needed to simply separate myself from that and simply truly give attention to the job and check out to not assume an excessive amount of about how persons are going to react to it earlier than I’ve even made it, if that is smart. I used to be simply form of attempting to maintain that thought out of my head and simply observe Anne’s course. She made it very straightforward to form of navigate the character and the story and the way it was written. It felt very true to the unique film, whereas additionally being very up to date.”
Hocus Pocus 2 at its core is all about sisterhood. For Whitney, household is every part, whether or not it's your blood or chosen household. “In actual life, I even have two older sisters and I've one older brother. I’m the youngest one in my household, so simply my sense of household and neighborhood, conserving the those that I really like near me, is so embedded in me as a result of it’s all the time form of been like… the 5 of us moved from Uganda into Canada and needed to relearn this complete society. So we’ve all the time form of been round one another, identical to me, my mother and my siblings,” she stated.
Whitney continued, “After which, after all, the household that you simply select, which is your folks and your very tight circle of the few people that basically make you are feeling seen and heard and simply secure. I undoubtedly resonate with that in Becca and in Zoya [from Gossip Girl]. Simply that sense of sisterhood and taking good care of the folks that you simply love and ensuring that anyone who has that form of entry to you is not only a random particular person. They should be essential.”
The 19-year-old was excited to tackle a job on Hocus Pocus 2 as a result of she thought it could “be a problem” for her. “As slightly lady, I’m positive I all the time needed to have magic powers and experience round and be a witch or one thing. It was enjoyable to image myself doing that in my head after which truly attending to do it in a film was actually insane,” Whitney advised HollywoodLife.