Joey King said she was not even born when Practical Magic arrived in 1998, a reminder of how far the franchise has traveled by the time Practical Magic 2 reaches September. She and Maisie Williams appeared at the 2026 Teen Vogue Fest to talk about playing Sally Owens’s grown-up daughters, Antonia and Kylie.
2026 Teen Vogue Fest
King said she first saw Practical Magic when she was nine or ten and added, “I was nine or ten and I was really scared,” about that first viewing. That detail gives the sequel a useful generational split: the actors are entering a property they knew as viewers before they joined it as cast members.
Williams described the assignment as “a little bit terrifying, only because you want to be on your A-game and are working with legends.” She added, “You never stop learning and growing from people you work with, so getting to learn and grow from Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman was fun and a little overwhelming.”
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman
Practical Magic 2 places King and Williams opposite Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens and Nicole Kidman as Gillian in Practical Magic. In the sequel, Antonia and Kylie are grown up and learning about their supernatural ancestry, which shifts them from background heirs to the story’s next working generation.
The group-chat detail is the clearest sign the cast has already settled into a working rhythm. King and Williams taught Bullock and Kidman the word “wig,” and Bullock taught King and Williams “6,7.”
Antonia and Kylie
Williams also talked about image as part of the job, saying, “That is a tool I’ve used to project the current version of myself versus two years ago, three years ago… as a teenager you change so quickly.” She tied that idea to her broader career goal, saying, “I hope to have longevity in my career.”
That fits the sequel’s casting logic. Practical Magic 2 is leaning on actors who have already spent years in public view, then pairing them with a franchise that has nearly 30 years of history behind it.
This September
King returned to the oldest memory in the story with one line that still does the work of an origin scene: “I was nine or ten and I was really scared.” The sequel now has a clean runway to this September, and the strongest open question is whether the costumes teased at Teen Vogue Fest will signal a sharper, more modern take on the Owens line without losing the franchise’s witchy shorthand.
