Disney used Monday’s trailer for Hexed to add Pat McAfee to Hailee Steinfeld movies in one move. McAfee will voice a character in the animated film, while Steinfeld leads as Billie Doe, the impulsive teenage girl at the center of the story.
The trailer frames Hexed as "an all-new magical coming-of-age saga," and that wording does the work Disney wants: it signals a studio bet on a broad family audience while naming enough of the cast to make the project feel assembled, not tentative. Alongside McAfee and Steinfeld, Rashida Jones, Jodie Foster, and Walton Goggins also contributed voices.
Billie Doe Leads Hexed
Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie Doe, who discovers secret magical abilities before being hurled out of suburbia and into a spectacle-filled journey through a vast witch realm called Hexe. That setup gives Disney a clear lead character and a fantasy world built for trailer marketing, with Billie Doe in Hexed positioned as the film’s identity anchor.
The cast list matters because Disney did not stop at a single headline name. By pairing Steinfeld with Jones, Foster, Goggins, and McAfee, the studio is building a voice lineup that stretches across acting, television, and sports media, a mix that can widen the film’s reach before release planning even starts.
Pat McAfee Enters Disney
Pat McAfee is the most unexpected addition in the announcement. He will voice one of the characters, but Disney did not say which one, so the casting lands as a role assignment without the usual label that tells viewers whether a newcomer is comic relief, a supporting figure, or something larger inside the story.
That omission leaves the announcement half-open: readers know McAfee is in the movie, yet they do not know how much screen time or narrative weight the part carries. For Disney, the move still works as publicity because the trailer now doubles as a cast reveal, and the film gains another recognizable name without giving away the part.
On Monday, Disney Moved
On Monday, Disney paired the trailer release with the McAfee casting news, which gives the rollout a clean promotional sequence rather than two separate beats. The studio is selling Hexed first as a premise — magical, coming-of-age, animated — and second as a voice-cast package built around Billie Doe and the ensemble around her.
Which character will Pat McAfee voice in Hexed? That is the one practical question Disney left unanswered, and it is the one detail that would tell viewers whether this is a major supporting turn or simply a brief spot in the film’s larger voice cast.
