Kathryn Hahn dressed up as the Wicked-Witch from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in a new look for Disney+’s ‘Agatha All Along.’ The image showed her sporting green skin much like Margaret Hamilton’s villainous character in the 1939 movie.
Showrunner Jac Schaeffer and the cast drew inspiration from various sources on witchy magic while working on this ‘WandaVision’ spinoff.
“That’s my personal brand of ladies in their coastal grandma chic that are backstabbing and duplicitous and fighting for spots at the private school,” Schaeffer recently told Entertainment Weekly. “Those are witches. That’s a coven.”
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Hahn’s Agatha returned to get her magic back after losing it all to Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), along with her memory, at the end of the 2021 Marvel show. Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal helped her snap out of trance, according to early trailers.
The two actresses themselves used different sources to shape their characters in the upcoming series. “There’s some Nancy Myers in there, there is, [as] for witches, some of the friendship of ‘Hocus Pocus’ – the deep sweet friendships – and also the terror of Practical Magic, of stuff like ‘Poltergeist’ or ‘E.T.’” Hahn said of her influences in a Total Film chat in August.
“‘The Craft’ is one that I felt was really totally coming through,” Plaza continued during the same interview. “That movie gets hardcore scary, and what’s cool about ‘The Craft’ is one [thing] about ‘Agatha.’ It really rides the line. There are times when it’s really funny and almost has this campy quality, but then there are times it just gets really dark and grounded and scary.”
‘Agatha All Along’ will premiere on September 18 with its first two episodes. Rest of the nine episodes will air weekly until November after that. Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, and Patti LuPone will star in the series along with Hahn and Plaza.
