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Brandy Norwood and Paolo Montalban as Cinderella and King Charming in"Descendants: Rise of Red."Ahead of Brandy Norwood ’s forthcoming horror film “The Front Room,” she took a walk down memory lane to reprise one of her most renowned roles: Cinderella .
Montalban sang Brandy’s praises, recalling the moment he saw Brandy in costume for the first time in more than 25 years. “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” was iconic on a few levels. Between the legendary casting , the elite musical score and the groundbreaking diverse casting, this film set a standard that many in Hollywood still aim to reach for today.Representation is at the forefront in “Descendants,” too. In “Rise of Red,” Brandy and Montalban’s characters have grown up, and are queen and king and passing down, not glass slippers, but diamond-encrusted Converse to their daughter, Princess Chloe .
Now she pinches herself to be a part of the new generation carrying these stories on, and with a doll in her own likeness.
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