'Godmothered' Cast Isla Fisher, Jillian Bell and Jane Curtin Talk Fairy Godmothers
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- Category: Interviews
- Published: Monday, 30 November 2020 09:32
- Written by Lupe R Haas
Jillian Bell plays a fairy godmother in-training in Disney+'s new movie GODMOTHERED along with Isla Fisher and Jane Curtin. The cast talk about the new enchanted tale, and whether fairy tales still make the same impact in the modern age. Isla Fisher explains why she finds fairytales offensive and adjusts them for her children.
GODMOTHERED premieres December 4 on Disney+.
Official Synopsis
Set at Christmas time, “Godmothered” is a comedy about Eleanor, a young, inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training (Jillian Bell) who upon hearing that her chosen profession is facing extinction, decides to show the world that people still need fairy godmothers. Finding a mislaid letter from a 10-year-old girl in distress, Eleanor tracks her down and discovers that the girl, Mackenzie, is now a 40-year-old single mom (Isla Fisher) working at a news station in Boston. Having lost her husband several years earlier, Mackenzie has all but given up on the idea of “Happily Ever After,” but Eleanor is bound and determined to give Mackenzie a happiness makeover, whether she likes it or not.
“Godmothered” is directed by Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Bridget Jones’s Baby”) and produced by Justin Springer (“Dumbo”), Diane L. Sabatini (“Lady and the Tramp”), Tom Pollock (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”), Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters”) and Amie Karp (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”) served as executive producers.
“Godmothered” also stars Santiago Cabrera, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Jane Curtin, June Squibb, Jillian Shea Spaeder, Willa Skye, Artemis Pebdani, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Stephnie Weir.