‘Hocus Pocus 2’s Young Winifred Gushes Bette Midler Was ‘So Generous With Advice’

Hocus Pocus 2 is the Halloween movie fans person been waiting astir 30 years to see. The Disney+ Original premieres September 30, and the Sanderson sisters are backmost successful Salem. The sequel includes flashbacks to amusement the Sanderson sisters successful their teen years. Young Winifred is played by Taylor Paige Henderson.

Taylor Paige Henderson astatine the ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ premiere. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

“When I recovered retired I got the role, I was truthful excited. I conscionable felt this immense feeling of alleviation due to the fact that I’d been going done the audition process and callback process for truthful agelong astatine that point,” Taylor told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “I was conscionable truthful excited, and it was specified a immense grant that I get to play this role.”

The young histrion watched Hocus Pocus “so galore times” arsenic she auditioned to “make definite I truly had Winifred’s mannerisms down correctly.” After getting the relation of young Winifred, Taylor admitted she “watched the movie each nighttime earlier going connected set. I watched truthful galore interviews of Bette Midler, but I besides got to ticker Bette bash her camera test, which was similar the best quality study I could ever get.”

Getting to talk with Bette astir the quality of Winifred was a imagination travel existent for Taylor. “She is specified a fable and truthful generous with proposal and truthful kind. Just to beryllium successful her beingness is truthful amazing,” she said. Taylor revealed that she and Bette talked “about the quality and however she portrays Winnie, however she’s ever moving and got her hands going and her faces. We talked astir however she looks and however her hairsbreadth is specified a large portion of her personality. She’s fixed maine tons of pointers connected the character, which I was truthful grateful for.”

To go Winifred was a “long process,” Taylor revealed. “I had to get my wig fitted, and past I had to person my teeth molded. I had truthful galore costume fittings implicit a play of clip earlier we started filming. So erstwhile I yet saw myself successful costume, it was truthful chill and truthful surreal. My wig and my teeth were handmade by somebody,” Taylor noted.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy successful ‘Hocus Pocus 2.’ (Disney+)

Taylor admitted that telling a caller broadside to Winifred Sanderson and the unit that would bring was “very overwhelming” astatine first. “It is simply a quality that everyone loves and from specified an iconic movie, I was frightened of however I would beryllium capable to bash the quality justice, but that conscionable truly drove maine to bash truthful overmuch quality survey and truthful overmuch hard work. To marque definite I had similar each the Winnisms, which is what I telephone them, down. It was specified an grant to bring Bette Midler’s quality to beingness due to the fact that she’s specified a legend. But it was intimidating astatine first,” Taylor said.

As for whether oregon not she’d beryllium down for reprising the relation of young Winifred again, Taylor responded, “It would beryllium truthful overmuch fun. I’m ever unfastened to that idea.”