Halloween is (nonetheless) cool! After taking over the spooky season with its debut in 1998, Halloweentown has endured to provide a place for fans to celebrate the holiday over the years.
The Disney Channel unique film adopted Marnie (Kimberly J. Brown) and her siblings as they came upon that they belong to a family of witches. After her grandmother Aggie (Debbie Reynolds) takes her to Halloweentown, Marnie quickly learns on her thirteenth birthday that she has to battle in opposition to the evil that is threatening to take over the entire global.
Fans of the enduring film franchise weren’t the only ones protecting their love for Halloweentown alive, because the cast has attended many events in honor of the film.
“The fam bam is back in combination!” Brown captioned a candy Instagram picture of her, Emily Roeske (Sophie), Joey Zimmerman (Dylan) and Judith Hoag (Gwen) at an annual Spirit of Halloweentown festival in St. Helen, Oregon, where the first movie was originally filmed, in 2017.
Over the years, Brown now not only reconnected with people who loved the venture, she additionally started relationship her costar Daniel Kountz (Kal), who appeared in the 2001 sequel Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge. The duo announced their engagement in June 2022.
“We’ve kept in touch through the years since we wrapped the second one movie, and we’ve been friends on social media for some time. We hadn’t seen every different in a bit of, and I wanted him to be in a few of my unique comedy sessions that I shoot for my YouTube channel,” Brown advised Bustle in 2017 about forming a bond with Kountz years after working together.
The Guiding Light alum added: “I ended up directing a brief movie about where Kal may well be now, and [Daniel] graciously starred in it with some of my other pals from Second City where I’ve been finding out improv for a while. We shot that and that stuff on my YouTube channel more or less persisted. It simply naturally and really all of a sudden grew from that.”
Brown noted that the response from the Halloweentown fanatics has been “amazing.”
“There’s a advantageous line with being in the public eye and the media and my private lifestyles, but it surely’s been lovely humorous to watch the fans’ responses,” she shared on the time.
Three years later, the Maryland native detailed the strains that audience have enjoyed repeating to her after finding out that Marnie and Kal are together in real life.
“People at all times love the … ‘If witches have been all as beautiful as you, they’d have a greater reputation,’” Brown informed the Los Angeles Times in October 2020. “And then there’s, ‘Meeting you was the entirety I was hoping it might be,’ and that kind of factor. … Before I discover that he’s evil, clearly.”
Kountz, who transitioned into real estate after starring in the Halloweentown franchise, revealed that he nonetheless will get recognized to these days.
“Numerous [lovers] say, ‘I will be able to’t consider you’re with Marnie now. Didn’t she be informed from her past errors?’ Funny such things as that, which more or less crack me up,” Kountz added.
During the 2020 interview, Brown revealed one of the most important lessons that she learned from Reynolds, who died in 2016, when it got here to appreciating their target market.
“That was once something that was always essential to her,” Brown recalled. “She in point of fact taught me what a gift it is to be in that place so that you could make folks glad. … That all the time has caught with me.”
The Rose Red superstar admitted that her courting with the Golden Globe nominee very much reflected their on display bond.
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“[I] attempted to soak up as much time together with her as I could as a result of she changed into some other grandmother to me,” Brown shared with the L.A. Times. “So much of their relationship on screen mirrored what our dating was once in actual lifestyles, so I’m thankful for that time I got along with her.”
Keep scrolling for a take a look at where the Halloweentown cast is now:
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