“A lot of this came from the heart and soul of Whitney.
Figures likeWhitney Houston, who played fairy godmother to the project both on and off camera.
“A lot of this came from the heart and soul of Whitney.
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“It’s just a beautiful relationship with Whitney.
She was so encouraging as a mentor, and so smart, and so fabulous, just fabulous.”
And Whitney was like, ‘Really?’
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I mean she really didn’t know it owned.
And it took you to go, ‘kindly do that.'”
So we had beautiful moments.”
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Another cast member the group recently lost wasNatalie Desselle-Reid, who plays evil stepsister Minerva.
We went into the audition room together and we fell in love from the moment we met.
And it was, there was never a challenge with her to make something funny.
She was this naturally hilarious human being, both onscreen and off."
And I went ‘These women have this down.’
See thecast pay tribute to their colleagues and more in the full cast reunion above.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderellabeginsstreaming on Disney+at the stroke of midnight on Friday, Feb. 12.
