Witches, rejoice! A trailer for the Practical Magic sequel has dropped!
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back as Sally and Gilly, aka the Owens sisters, beautiful witches who many of us queer nerds entranced by magic and outcasts imprinted on at a young age. Is it because the two are stunning and hilarious, because all witches are at least a little gay or at least queer-coded in the way they’re often ostracized and misunderstood, or a secret third thing, who’s to say. All I know is they’re BACK, alongside their witchy aunts played by Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest. Joining them this time around are Sally’s now-grown daughters, played by Maisie Williams and Joey King.
Now, this is where things get interesting to me: this movie is said to be based on the fourth book in the Practical Magic book series by Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic. In that book, Sally’s daughter Antonia is a lesbian med student in love with a woman named Ariel. And Maisie Williams is playing Antonia. THEREFORE, I must conclude, unless they changed the source material for the worse, I do believe our beloved Game of Thrones star will be playing a lesbian witch??
Of course, there’s always the chance they changed that aspect of the character from the book, but that would be extremely disappointing. For now I’m just going to hope that the already-pretty-sapphic-coded story of Practical Magic will evolve to include some actually-sapphic content with a lesbian witch in the sequel.
The trailer gave me so much nostalgia and it would mean a lot to feel even more represented by this iconic franchise. I guess we’ll find out this September.
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Comments
it might be Joey King playing the lesbian witch, because they switched it around in the movie, in the book the older sister is a redhead named Antonia that grows up to be a lesbian in medical school, and Kylie is the younger brown haired sister, but in the movie they switched the names around. though they could have also switched their storylines around, but either way, one of them is probably playing a lesbian witch.
Oh interesting! But yes as long as it’s a lesbian witch, I’m not picky about who is who! haha
Who really cares who plays what? Is that what you’re gonna watch the movie for to see which one plays a lesbian? Give me a break.
Does it really matter who plays what? Is that what you wanna see Joey or Maisie playing a lesbian? Give me a break.
If you’re going to make two fake usernames with the same email address to make two different homophobic comments on the same article, you could have at least TRIED to make them sound like they were written by two different people.
I didn’t know if the first one went through. Homophobic? You alphabet people make me laugh. Not to mention you left his feminists. Good luck with your article. I’m the only one who responded. What a great writer you are.