The magical world of Descendants is increasing with Descendants: The Rise of Pink. The fourth installment within the Descendants franchise, premiering July 12 on Disney+, will introduce new faces and produce again acquainted ones as nicely. New stars Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker, who play Pink (daughter of Alice in Wonderland’s Queen of Hearts) and Chloe (daughter of Cinderella and Prince Charming), spoke with TV Insider about this subsequent chapter of Disney descendants. Watch the video above.
“I feel what’s actually attention-grabbing about this movie is the brand new worlds that we’re introducing,” Cantrall mentioned. “You have got Wonderland, which I really feel like everybody has their very own concept of what Wonderland appears like. We’ve seen it interpreted in numerous movies, however I feel our Wonderland is absolutely attention-grabbing, and it’s a bit creepy.” In Descendants: The Rise of Pink, Wonderland is “very militant and every part’s very uniform, however I feel that’s the place Pink likes to shake issues up, and it’s like her playground.”
The singer added that the movie additionally goes again in time to the early years of the Queen of Hearts (Ruby Rose Turner and Rita Ora) and Cinderella (Morgan Dudley and Brandy Norwood) at Merlin Academy, which was the “origin of Auradon Prep.” She additionally teased “a number of cool units and simply large musical numbers, which I feel is only a nod to the older movies.”
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Cinderellasburg is one other new world launched in Descendants: The Rise of Pink, which is the exact opposite of Wonderland. “I feel they’re the right distinction between one another,” Baker famous.
Whereas Pink and Chloe couldn’t be extra completely different on the floor, these two will uncover they’re extra alike than they assume. “I really feel like Pink goes by way of issues along with her mother, clearly, and she or he doesn’t actually know who she is. Chloe has the very same factor, however simply in a separate method. She doesn’t actually know who she is, however she thinks she does,” Baker defined.
Cantrall added, “I feel Pink, at first at the very least, looks like she’s type of set in her methods, too, in simply how guarded she is and the way chilly she comes off, particularly to Chloe. However then we type of go on related self-discovery journeys.”
Now, let’s get to these musical numbers. From the second we heard “Rotten to the Core” within the first Descendants movie, the music within the Descendants films grew to become a cornerstone of the franchise. “I feel that’s the most effective elements about this film, is that the musical numbers are essentially the most pivotal scenes in your entire movie,” Baker advised TV Insider.
The actress and Cantrall each agreed that “Battle of Our Lives” is certainly one of their favorites. “We go from hating one another to instantly perhaps we will work as a workforce,” Cantrall revealed concerning the monitor.
Throughout their cease at TV Insider’s New York Metropolis studio, Baker and Cantrall flipped by way of the pages of Norwood and Whitney Houston’s 1997 TV Information Journal cowl for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. In a full-circle Disney second, Norwood reprises her function because the beloved princess in Descendants: The Rise of Pink—she’s Chloe’s mother!
“I used to be obsessive about that film,” Baker mentioned concerning the 1997 TV film. “I keep in mind watching Moesha and being obsessed along with her then after which discovering this icon standing sort of film.”
Prince Charming in Descendants: The Rise of Pink is performed by none aside from Paolo Montalban, Brandy’s co-star from the 1997 movie. “They’ve a very particular connection,” Cantrall mentioned about Norwood and Montalban’s bond in spite of everything these years.
Descendants: The Rise of Pink, Film Premiere, Friday, July 12, Disney+
