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 turn out to be a Halloween-adjacent cult basic. It perhaps didn’t want a sequel, however Hollywood is aware of that followers have lengthy wished 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 dad and mom died—was important, and as Deadline reviews, it’s undoubtedly taking place. Midnight margaritas for everybody!

However we’re extra within the supporting forged, particularly since it would maintain clues to the plot of Sensible Magic 2. Joey King got here aboard in Might as, based on the Hollywood Reporter, “considered one 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 (Recreation 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 E-book of Magic, the sequel to her Sensible Magic source-material novel, would possibly yield some options.

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

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

Meaning there’s only one massive identify 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. Certainly we’ll hear a method or one other about his plans earlier than the film hits theaters September 18, 2026.

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