Lee Tempo Has Joined ‘Sensible Magic 2’...

Practical Magic 2 is already sky-high on our list of most-anticipated 2026 releases. The 1998 original follows the romantic misadventures of the witchy Owens sisters, performed by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman—and has since develop into a Halloween-adjacent cult basic. It perhaps didn’t want a sequel, however Hollywood is aware of that followers have lengthy needed one. And now we all know extra of the names becoming a member of Bullock and Kidman this time round.

First issues first: bringing again Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest—the aunts of Bullock and Kidman’s characters, who raised them after their mother and father died—was important, and as Deadline experiences, it’s positively occurring. Midnight margaritas for everybody!

However we’re extra within the supporting solid, particularly since it would maintain clues to the plot of Sensible Magic 2. Joey King got here aboard in Could as, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter, “one in every of Bullock’s daughters, the one who discovers the darkish household secrets and techniques and her personal darkish powers, plunging the household right into a disaster.”

However in that very same Deadline report breaking the Channing and Wiest information, extra names surfaced within the cauldron: Maisie Williams (Sport of Thrones‘ Arya Stark), Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai, Blue Beetle), Solly McLeod (Home of the Dragon), and… women and gents, Lee Tempo (Basis).

“Character particulars for the newcomers are below wraps, as is the plot of the sequel,” the commerce notes, although a 2024 Entertainment Weekly story suggests studying Alice Hoffman’s The Guide of Magic, the sequel to her Sensible Magic source-material novel, may yield some options.

However with King taking part in one in every of Sally Owens’ daughters, it’s not too far of a stretch to think about that Williams might play the opposite daughter. Persevering with the hypothesis, Maridueña and McLeod are the suitable ages to play, maybe, boyfriends or husbands of this youthful era of spellcasters.

However how does Tempo match into all this? May the cult-beloved actor, presently showing in season three of Apple TV+ sci-fi collection Foundation, be filling a villain function? He positively has a aptitude for drama and sporting fantastical outfits (see: Thranduil the Elvenking in The Hobbit motion pictures; Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel; his character in The Fall‘s fantasy iteration). The Guide of Magic additionally incorporates a long-lost Owens brother, in order that’s additionally a risk for Tempo.

Meaning there’s only one massive title left to tick off the Sensible Magic 2 name sheet: Aidan Quinn, who performs the drawling lawman who falls in love with Bullock’s character within the first film. Absolutely we’ll hear a technique or one other about his plans earlier than the film hits theaters September 18, 2026.

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