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78 After waiting decades, Hocus Pocus 2 has yet arrived with caller and acquainted faces. The Sanderson sisters find themselves successful 2022 Salem aft 2 young girls, Becca and Izzy, accidentally airy the Black Flame candle and revive the witchy trio. Whitney Peak plays Becca, a fiercely autarkic teen with a emotion for the spooky broadside of life.
Belissa Escobedo and Whitney Peak successful ‘Hocus Pocus 2.’ (Disney+)Whitney told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during the Hocus Pocus 2 property junket that it was “terrifying successful a weird way” to spot Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy successful quality arsenic the Sanderson sisters for the archetypal clip “because they’re truthful bully astatine what they do. I mean, it’s hard to spot them arsenic conscionable their idiosyncratic selves. Sarah Jessica and Bette and Kathy, it’s hard to spot them erstwhile they person the costumes and not beryllium intimidated by them.”
She added, “It was very, precise chill to ticker them execute and beryllium successful quality and conscionable successful and retired of it. It was conscionable precise admirable.”
The ending of the film features Winifred enacting an all-powerful spell, which causes her to suffer Sarah and Mary. After realizing that she can’t unrecorded without them, Winifred rejoins her sisters. “My powers are thing without my sisters,” Winifred says adjacent tears. She leaves Book down with Becca, Izzy, and Cassie.
There is simply a pivotal post-credits country that shows Gilbert’s feline Cobweb walking astir the magic shop. Cobweb crosses paths with a container that work “Black Flame candle #2.” HollywoodLife had to inquire Whitney if she’d instrumentality for a imaginable Hocus Pocus 3.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy successful ‘Hocus Pocus 2.’ (Disney+)“I mean, I would beryllium down. But I don’t cognize if determination is. I consciousness similar everybody keeps asking maine and I’m like, determination is benignant of a post-credits country that leaves the doorway open, but you didn’t perceive from me,” the Gossip Girl alum quipped. She noted that she viewed that last country “as determination was possibly perchance a 2nd achromatic occurrence candle, and somebody’s going to person to airy it.”
Becca, Izzy, and Cassie could perfectly beryllium the adjacent procreation of witches if the Hocus Pocus beingness wants to expand. “Maybe it’s my crook to enactment immoderate kids successful place,” Whitney said.
The histrion revealed if she felt immoderate unit astir her relation successful Hocus Pocus 2, 1 of the astir highly-anticipated Disney sequels. “I deliberation definitely, initially, it was weird due to the fact that I had besides conscionable finished the archetypal play of Gossip Girl, which besides had similar a cult following,” the 19-year-old said. “That was stepping into thing that already has specified a immense reputation, and truthful it was benignant of, okay, present we spell again. I benignant of had to conscionable abstracted myself from that and conscionable really absorption connected the occupation and effort not to deliberation excessively overmuch astir however radical are going to respond to it earlier I’ve adjacent made it, if that makes sense. I was conscionable benignant of trying to support that thought retired of my caput and conscionable travel Anne’s direction. She made it precise casual to benignant of navigate the quality and the communicative and however it was written. It felt precise existent to the archetypal movie, portion besides being precise contemporary.”
Whitney Peak astatine the ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ premiere. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)Hocus Pocus 2 astatine its halfway is each astir sisterhood. For Whitney, household is everything, whether it beryllium your humor oregon chosen family. “In existent life, I really person 2 older sisters and I person 1 older brother. I’m the youngest 1 successful my family, truthful conscionable my consciousness of household and community, keeping the radical that I emotion adjacent to me, is truthful embedded successful maine due to the fact that it’s ever benignant of been like… the 5 of america moved from Uganda into Canada and had to relearn this full society. So we’ve ever benignant of been astir each other, conscionable similar me, my ma and my siblings,” she said.
Whitney continued, “And then, of course, the household that you choose, which is your friends and your precise choky ellipse of the fewer individuals that truly marque you consciousness seen and heard and conscionable safe. I decidedly resonate with that successful Becca and successful Zoya [from Gossip Girl]. Just that consciousness of sisterhood and taking attraction of the radical that you emotion and making definite that anybody who has that benignant of entree to you is not conscionable a random person. They person to beryllium important.”
The 19-year-old was excited to instrumentality connected a relation connected Hocus Pocus 2 due to the fact that she thought it would “be a challenge” for her. “As a small girl, I’m definite I ever wanted to person magic powers and thrust astir and beryllium a witch oregon something. It was amusive to representation myself doing that successful my caput and past really getting to bash it successful a movie was truly insane,” Whitney told HollywoodLife.
