Gillian Owens

In the Harry Potter movies, which Hogwarts professor teaches transfiguration and can transform into a cat? In Harry Potter movies, which Hogwarts professor teaches transfiguration and can transform into a cat? Question number seven.

In the movie Practical Magic from 1998, because a new one just came out, which two actresses play the witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens? In the movie Practical Magic from 1998, which two actresses play the witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens? Question number eight.

In the TV series Bewitched from 1964, what does Samantha Stevens wiggle to perform magic? In the TV series Bewitched from 1964, what does Samantha Stevens wiggle to perform magic? Question number nine.

In the movie The Witches from 1990, which actress plays the Grand High Witch? In the movie The Witches from 1990, which actress plays the Grand High Witch? And your final question for today's game of Witches in the Movies and TV.

In the Harry Potter movies, which Hogwarts professor teaches transfiguration and can transform into a cat? The answer, Professor Minerva McGonagall.

Question number seven.

In the movie Practical Magic from 1998, which two actresses play the witch sisters Sally and Gillian Owens? And they're playing it again.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

For two s- for two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves, but when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic.

With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

Wow, it really makes it sound like a horror movie, doesn't it?

And that was our exact point.

[laughs]

So our main characters, Gillian and Sally, are raised by their two kooky aunts-

Mm-hmm

Right.

And being like, I want to spend time with, with the Owens, the aunts and the sisters.

And I want to be in that town and I want to be and I want experience.

And I would do this with magic.

it

doesn't even be like it's just you know i

think that's it right like There's so much to it where even just in the opening scene where, you know, Maria literally saying, you know, any man, whoever dares to love an Owens woman is cursed.

It gets a very, that's a cold-blooded thing to wish upon your family, right? That's a real brutal curse.

I keep picturing this entire series as a massive, sprawling, slightly haunted house.

Hoffman is basically handing you a heavy iron ring of keys to the Owens family home.

Right, but the door you choose to unlock first fundamentally changes the architecture of the building in your mind.

Exactly.

It was a standalone contemporary novel.

Right.

It focused on two sisters, Sally and Gillian Owens, who are raised by their eccentric aunts.

They just want ordinary, quiet lives, but the universe entirely refuses to let them have that.

Sandra Bullock as Sally Owens.

Nicole Kidman as Gillian Owens.

Sandy B. Yeah.

Stackard fucking Channing as Francis.

So Honeybee, what are your thoughts and feelings on Practical Magic?

Oh man, I feel very biased.

You know, like again, I saw this movie when I was a child, and I grew up with it, and I loved it so much, and I wanted to be either Sally or, um, Gillian, depending on what age I was and then what w- what I was going through.

Um, [laughs] so it's very near and dear to my heart.

Yeah.

We follow sisters Gillian and Sally Owens who were raised in a Massachusetts town by their aunts, and the town is just deeply suspicious of them.

They ostracize the girls because of their aunts' unabashed practice of everyday magic.

And it's that desperation to escape the ostracization that really drives the plot.

Gillian and Sally both end up leaving the town, attempting to outrun this dark, suffocating legacy.

But they can't.

No.

Hoffman is using the supernatural to explore generational trauma.