Nicole Kidman is ready to show you some practical magic. ET’s Cassie DiLaura spoke with the actress on Thursday, just days later confirmed that a sequel to her and Sandra Bullock’s 1998 film, Practical Magicis officially in the works.
“Sandy and I have been talking about this for a while,” Kidman told ET. “Warner Bros. was going to launch polls and (now it’s happening)!”
The original film follows sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who descend from a long line of witches and must fight a family curse to find love. As for what’s to come in the sequel, Kidman remained tight-lipped.
“It will be interesting because when it first came out, the way it was kind of outrageous and now (it’s not),” she said. “There’s a whole reason to do it. There’s something good about (having a reason to do it).”
Whatever the plot, Kidman assured fans that the sequel will stay true to the core of the original story.
“Ultimately, it’s about sisters. Obviously, I have a sister and I’m raising sisters now, so there’s a lot there anyway,” Kidman said of her sister, Antonia, and her daughters with Keith UrbanoSunday the 15th and Faith the 13th. “(The question is) how does that translate to now?”
As fans eagerly await more details about Practical Magic 2they can catch Kidman in her new Netflix movie, A family affair. In the movie, Zac Efron plays a movie star called Chris Cole, who falls in love with his assistant, Zara (Image: Getty Images)Joey King), mother, Brooke (Kidman).
The novel’s twist on the age gap, Kidman told ET, “says something about the way we’ve changed in scanning the landscape for stories that are being told.”
“It’s always been told from the male perspective,” she said, “so it’s lovely to now have an abundance of stories about all ages and all sexualities, all the ones where it’s much more open and available to us.”
As for her experience making the project, Kidman said, “It was fun. That was part of the reason I wanted to do it. I wanted to have fun. I really wanted to be with people who would make me laugh.”
A family affair premieres June 28 on Netflix.
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