So, um, where does this rank in terms of what you get stopped and asked about in the street? Like, you know, is it, is it The West Wing? Is it Lost Boys? Is it, you know, your theater work? Like, where, where does Practical Magic sort of come in terms of that?

Well, it would pop up more frequently.

It's a very strange timeline because when it first came out, I think a little bit of lip and a lot of critics didn't quite understand it.

Um, I don't really read them, but it, it would pop up and I went, "Oh, well, that's too bad." Because I really, we had a great time.

That's too bad.

So what I'd like, what I really don't understand is that why now? I think it's an accumulation of really, and the technology involved absolutely, but there's a lot of films out there that, in th- in this category.

Why Practical Magic? I have no idea.

So how about Joey and Maisy coming in? Were they, did they fit into the gang immediately or...?

How do you live those values of courage and authenticity in your own lives?

I take it as a responsibility to care for the people you love.

whether they be blood relations friends, whatever they may be, I think that you have to find the humanity inside yourself to do that, to exchange that sense of connection and responsibility.

I know the film is full of so much magic as well and thinking back over your careers, can you remember the first time you felt real magic when you were on set either with this film or the first or a different project?

I remember when I was about in my early, early 20s, and I was in a play called Musical 3 to the Opera, and I was cast as Jenny Driver, and I had to sing the Pirate Jenny song, which I'm not familiar with, but when the production came in, I remember the first time we were in a tech, and the lights came on, and I sang the song, and I knew that something had happened to me that I had never experienced in my life.

And it was as if my emotional life, my intellectual life had all come together.

And I knew exactly what I was doing.

I knew what every word of that song meant.

How does this role resonate with you? Because, you know, we all document our lives so much these days on social media.

And the other thing is that that technology, not only did it exist then, but Beckett was fantastically obsessed with the tape recorder, which I think...

Someone must tell me if this is apocryphal or not.

At the BBC, he had an interview, and he said, what's that thing? And they said, that's a tape recorder.

And the reason he said it in the future... is that every year on this man's birthday, at 70 now, he does random picks a year.

So he has to have been doing it since he was in his 20s.

So the play is set in the future.

I wonder if you've actually had conversations with First Ladies, or indeed Presidents.