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Brandy Norwood on Returning as Cinderella for Descendants: Rise of Red

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Brandy Norwood is having fairly a 12 months, which incorporates returning as Cinderella greater than 20 years after first enjoying the position for Disney.

Norwood starred because the storybook heroine for ABC’s 1997 tv film Cinderella, reverse Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming. The pair is again to reprise their characters in Descendants: The Rise of the Crimson, which is at the moment streaming on Disney+ and is ready to debut on the Disney Channel on Aug. 9.

“We’re so honored, so blessed, so excited,” Norwood tells The Hollywood Reporter about reuniting with Montalban. “That is such a magical expertise to have the ability to work with Paolo once more, to waltz with him, to sing with him — all of it.”

The brand new movie is the fourth installment within the Disney Channel-produced Descendants franchise that first launched in 2015. Descendants: The Rise of Crimson facilities on Crimson (Kylie Cantrall), the daughter of the Queen of Hearts (Rita Ora), and Chloe, daughter of Cinderella (Norwood), placing their variations apart to avoid wasting their world with the assistance of time journey.

Jason Alexander, Paolo Montalban, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Bernadette Peters, Natalie Deselle and Veanne Cox in ABC’s Cinderella (1997).

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Norwood tells THR that the “chemistry was simply automated” between herself and Montalban. He concurs, revealing that his favourite second whereas making the brand new mission was seeing Norwood’s preliminary introduction in it: “It was raining, so we have been in our palace house, and she or he emerges from the mist. Simply wonderful.”

Baker bought to expertise their particular bond firsthand whereas enjoying the couple’s daughter. “The connection all these years later has really been loopy,” Baker says of Norwood and Montalban. “It’s precisely what you hope for and also you image. Having the ability to be a small a part of that’s simply such a surreal actuality to reside by. It’s been magical.”

The 1997 model of Cinderella — with a forged that additionally included Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg and Bernadette Peters — continues to be fondly remembered and has earned reward for that includes individuals of shade in plenty of lead roles. This isn’t misplaced on the performers themselves, with Montalban lauding the Descendants films for persevering with this legacy.

Brandy Norwood, Malia Baker and Paolo Montalban in Descendants: The Rise of Crimson.

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“Not solely is there an abundance of illustration within the [Descendants] characters, there’s additionally illustration of several types of households,” Montalban says. “It feels regular on this world as a result of it needs to be regular, as a result of it’s regular in our world as effectively. That lets individuals really feel like they belong and really feel like they’re seen.”

This movie is only one in a string of current accomplishments for Norwood. The star performs the lead within the A24 psychological horror film The Entrance Room that hits theaters in September, whereas Ariana Grande’s reimagining of “The Boy Is Mine,” Norwood’s 1998 chart-topping duet with Monica, has been getting radio play, and Monica and Norwood have cameos within the music video.

“A resurgence!” Norwood exclaims when requested about this busy stretch. “I’m nonetheless impressed. I really like what I do. I’m simply excited for every part to hit the scene and see what individuals assume, and to see if individuals can nonetheless be impressed by what I do.”

As for the tease on the finish of Descendants: The Rise of Crimson that seems to vow a follow-up movie, Norwood hints that she’s been concerned in talks to return once more as Cinderella. “I’ve heard a couple of issues,” she quips. “I don’t know that I can affirm these issues, however I’ve heard little talks right here and there. That might be nice.”

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Monica on Brandy Reunion for Ariana Grande’s ‘The Boy Is Mine (Remix)’

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Monica and Brandy reunited onscreen earlier this month for Ariana Grande’s music video “the boy is mine,” her tackle their hit 1998 tune of the identical title.

The previous creative collaborators reunited as soon as once more on Grande’s “the boy is mine (Remix),” which was launched on Friday. The up to date model of the tune options Monica and Brandy’s vocals and helped the singers come again collectively.

“The method of the brand new collaboration did lots of closing the gaps,” Monica instructed Leisure Tonight about working with Brandy once more. “Once you correctly talk one thing, yow will discover not solely the resolutions and options to issues. However typically you discover that there weren’t ever issues, simply constant miscommunications,” including, “It made it quite a bit simpler simply to speak.”

Since working collectively on Grande’s remix, Monica famous she and Brandy have talked extra in latest weeks than they’d in within the final twenty years.

“We acknowledged that the important thing was to maintain different folks out of our relationship, each enterprise and private, and let or not it’s between she and I, and that has modified every little thing,” Monica instructed the publication. “It’s modified the trajectory of it in its totality. My son was within the hospital the opposite day, and he or she was who I used to be chatting with whereas he was there, so I feel that’s what Ariana has performed that she might not even notice.”

Ariana Grande, Brandy, Monica - the boy is mine (Remix) (Official Lyric Video)

Now that Monica and Brandy have labored collectively once more, there’s no stopping them from persevering with to collaborate on music in any case this time, with Monica noting there’s definitely an opportunity.

“It’s workforce ‘The Boy Is Mine‘ at present, tomorrow, and for the final 25 years,” she added. “We have now lots of catching as much as do within the sense of giving the viewers what they actually needed from us even again then. We didn’t discover a approach to do it then, however we’re discovering a approach to do it now.”

Previous to the discharge of the remix, Monica had been very vocal about not wanting her and Brandy’s 1998 observe to be touched or remade by anybody however them. Nevertheless, she revealed that when she heard Grande and producer Max Martin’s model, she instantly fell in love with it. She and the “we are able to’t be associates” singers even had FaceTime classes whereas they have been engaged on the tune, which ended up together with their households.

Regardless of rumors that Monica and Brandy have been at odds, Monica beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter that she and her former collaborator have been “greater than good” and had been for fairly a while.

She famous that lots of what folks might have heard about them was from once they have been youngsters however as a grown lady now, she has nothing however love and admiration for Brandy. She additionally admitted she wished the rumors would go away.

“I want folks would cease placing the 2 in opposition to one another,” she instructed THR throughout a dialog celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of “The Boy Is Mine.” “I want folks would cease making an attempt to check who sings higher, who seems higher, who outdid the opposite one, as a result of I by no means got here into the area with a spirit of competitors anyway. … I want folks would simply let or not it’s that and never even evaluate the 2 or create any animosity, even inside our fan teams.”