Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman take a stroll down memory lane while chatting with ET's Kevin Frazier about 'Practical Magic 2,' before it hits theaters on Sept. 10. The Oscar-winners explain why nothing about them has changed since ET first visited the original film's set back in 1998, and also look ahead, with both mothers sharing how they're preparing to deal with their teenagers moving off to college. The Owens sisters also gush about their new co-stars, Joey King and Maisie Williams, while also honoring the OG aunties, Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest.
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Two lead actresses reunite to discuss their return to a beloved film franchise. They reflect on their enduring chemistry, the emotional depth of the new story, and the themes of female kinship and generational legacy that define the movie.
We want to show you this.
No way.
You two on the set of the first movie.
Working with Nicole.
You couldn't pick two more completely different girls, but when we have, when we're together,
we have a really great time.
I have a great time with her, and you know, there's some times that I want to kill her,
and that's a good thing.
I still want to kill you.
I hate to kill you right now, but sometimes she just wants to stick a sock in my mouth
and push me off to the side.
Do you still want to put a sock in my mouth?
It's so good.
Do you want to put a sock in my mouth?
It's so good.
It's because she's so good.
That's what we do.
This is what we do before a tap scene.
Strong like bull.
I know you.
Where are Nicole's words on me?
Oh my God.
That is exactly the same.
Yeah, but where are your kind words?
Let's do strong like bull.
Thank you.
Strong like bull.
Nothing changed.
I know.
I'm like freaked out.
What did you think about that?
Like nothing has changed.
Strong like bull.
Okay.
Do you still do that?
No.
But we'll be doing that.
That's crazy.
Don't pay attention to what's on the front.
I loved saying that.
Thank you.
But also the chemistry and the magic that was there.
How cool is that?
I just...
I love that.
Don't push me on my chair.
I am.
That, honestly, that has no rehearsal, no preparation.
We saw each other maybe four or five times on a red carpet over the past two and a half
decades.
That's it.
And then we walked back on set.
We didn't have any time for rehearsal.
We walked in that house and started bitching at each other.
Boom.
Boom, bitch.
And then laughing.
And then I pick her up.
She does.
She keeps picking me up.
And you pull down her pants a lot.
Do you pull down her pants?
I mean, who doesn't?
What is wrong with you?
Are you like six?
Are you six?
I mean, who doesn't?
But I can also pick her up.
She does.
And go, be quiet.
Yeah.
She's freakish.
It's the weirdest thing.
Mama strength is different.
Be quiet.
Than regular strength.
Yeah.
She's got the mama.
But I'm also dense.
And I'm really surprised at how quickly she lifts me off the ground.
Light as a feather.
There's not even a sound that goes with it.
Light as a feather.
It's just off the ground.
She just picks you up.
Yeah.
I remember when Mama told stories where everyone he saw in love died.
Died.
You know, we were cursed.
No.
We're Owen's women.
Mothers are undoing it.
What if you guys were all just a little bit dramatic?
Here's the thing about magic.
It won't be silenced.
Is this real?
Is he gonna die?
It's true.
We're witches and the curse is real.
I will never trust you again.
This movie has themes of love, loss, family, resilience.
And it felt a little bit like art imitating life.
In which ways did you guys lift each other up as you come back together during this time?
Yeah.
It was.
It was art imitating.
I mean, you live on this planet long enough.
Some art will reflect your life.
But this one in particular, I think.
At least for me.
Totally.
Use it.
Use your life.
I was like, whatever you want to use as we were writing the script.
I was like, use it.
It happened.
But Alice also wrote a story that I was already so deeply involved in that.
That it was very easy.
It's so dense.
Yeah.
And the hardest thing was choosing what to tell.
What part of the story to tell.
What to save for later.
It seemed like at times it was like you could feel.
I mean, look.
You're great actresses.
I understand that.
And you did your job.
But at the same time, it did feel like you were also pulling out.
You're like, I'm leaning on what I've been through in life.
To have this moment.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And then on top of it, having a curse.
What you bring to anything that brings you joy and love.
You realize, oh my God.
I can't do this anymore because I'm only going to harm people.
It's another layer on top of it.
It's just a really beautiful metaphoric journey that uses the word magic
instead of kismet or whatever it is that happens in everyone's family organically.
You also.
Passing it on.
The generations.
Yes.
It's, I think, something that we all can relate to.
And keeping us all connected.
But letting the young ones now go and find their place in the world.
That's hard.
By the way, are you ready for that?
It's coming in your life.
You have a superstar.
A model.
A superstar.
You have a kid who's growing up big.
And they're going to be gone soon.
How are you dealing with that?
They're not gone.
How are you dealing with that?
They're not gone.
They're just going to untry.
From the cradle to the grave.
I'm tracking those kids to my aspirin.
I'm the one that everyone worries about.
They're like, what are you going to do?
And I'm like, I don't know.
But what I've decided to do, I've gone on.
Have you done this yet?
I've started following these moms that decorate dorm rooms.
I know I'm two years out, but I'm going to be really prepared.
So I'm taking notes.
I'm taking notes and preparing.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
I really don't.
And if I keep saying that, I'll start crying.
Yeah, it's really heavy.
But it's also like, wow.
I can't wait to see what they do.
I'm here.
I'm here to support you.
I'm always here.
You can come home any time, which is actually the film.
You can come home.
Jed said we could trust this guy.
He's a scholar of the craft.
He's very strange to me.
He's under a spell.
Hand on unmarked flesh.
Go.
Now.
Easier said than done, Jillian.
Well, there's always...
Oh, my god.
What is wrong with you?
This film, it is slanted towards women.
I love the movie, though.
And you and I are the same year.
We're the same year.
It was great to see grown women living their lives
and kind of living out their lives.
How important is that?
Well, I think also showing grown women
and how just women in general support each other
and what we struggle with
and what the outside world puts on us,
you know, that now we can talk about a little more freely
than we could in the first film.
But women, when we get together,
we've always been depicted in a very stilted way.
And I go, I'm sorry.
When I'm 90, I hope she's still panting me.
And when I'm 90, I'm still gonna want the margarita
but at 3 in the afternoon
because I'll be asleep at 5.
You know, you want love.
And that's a really big thing for me in this film
is looking back at my mother and my grandmother
and going, oh, my God, they loved, they lost.
They were girls.
So we need to look back at those generations
and honor what we never got to see.
And there's always a girl in all of us.
No matter how old you get, there's the girl.
By the way, have you kept up with this woman
because she's not afraid to bring the sexy to a movie
with this baby girl or anything?
Well, they asked initially what really is interesting
is that they came to me first for baby girl.
They did.
They came to me first.
But I'm lactose intolerant,
so I couldn't really do some of the pivotal scenes.
The other stuff.
Okay, okay.
And then I said, what about Nicole?
She loves...
Give me the milk.
See?
Look at her.
She's like, give me the milk.
Oh, my gosh.
Right?
It's like, it just comes out of her.
No, stop.
See, I did it.
She's imitating.
No, that was my own thing when I asked for milk.
You don't know how I am in my house.
That's how I ask for milk.
Yeah.
Well, I heard you.
Good girl.
I've waited such a long time for this.
She has.
I want to ask about the next generation of ladies
and also the generation of aunties in this movie, too.
Diane and Stockard, we wouldn't be here without them.
They are the pillar of the family.
And our baby witch is Joey Amazy.
And they come with their own power and their own fire,
and we just step aside and let them do their work.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And also, I mean, Diane and Stockard is so brilliant.
And to watch them work, we've now watched them decades.
And it was extraordinary that all of us could come back together.
That's magic in itself.
It is amazing.
That's magic that is just, you know, never done.
Are you back now?
Are you back?
Or is this just like, you're going to take another four years?
It's a nice toe dip.
She's back.
It was a toe dip, but now we've got basketball season happening,
so I've got to go.
No, no.
Yes, I have to bring the snacks.
I'm the snack mom.
Bring it.
Everything's going to be okay.
Everything's going to be okay?
Just like it was when we had to bury a corpse under a rosebush?
That kind of fun?
Or different?
Different or same?