If "Ted Lasso" has indeed come to an end, Hannah Waddingham is not wanting for her roles. She's slated to appear in the upcoming film "The Fall Guy" starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, as well as the eighth "Mission Impossible" film. Her most recent feature film was 2022's "Hocus Pocus 2," in which she played Mother Witch.
A sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic, "Hocus Pocus 2," sees the return of the witchy Sanderson sisters: Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy). In the film's opening flashback, the young sisters meet the Mother Witch in 17th-century Salem. Sensing that they're not like other children, the Mother Witch gifts the sisters her human-skin-bound book of spells and sends them on their journey as young witches.
Waddingham relished playing the role, for which she donned wispy silver hair and a flowing cape. She also sympathized with the so-called villain. "What is a witch, really?" Waddingham asked InStyle. "She's just a woman who knows she has power, and who's been very misunderstood. And that's been so many of us, hasn't it? It's certainly been me."
"Hocus Pocus" has been confirmed to return for a third installment. Although Waddingham hasn't explicitly been asked to reprise her role, screenwriter Jen D'Angelo teased the character's return, telling Entertainment Weekly, "We've only scratched the surface of Hannah Waddingham's mother witch."
