Kimberly J. Brown On Halloweentown’s Legacy, Shares The place Marnie Would Be Right this moment (Unique)

It has been over 25 years because the first Halloweentown hit Disney Channel — and Marnie Piper herself, Kimberly J. Brown, nonetheless will get stopped on the road, with excited followers reciting quotes from the late ’90s and early 2000s TV motion pictures, and asking her “daily” if there’ll ever be one other movie.

Whereas selling her partnership with STEM insect repellant in an interview with TooFab, the 39-year-old former little one star mirrored on the franchise’s legacy, and the way Disney Channel Unique Motion pictures are nonetheless cherished at the moment.

“I’m so honored,” Brown mentioned of the franchise’s legacy. “We have been simply speculated to make one Halloweentown film again within the day. Folks ask me on a regular basis, ‘Was there a plan?’ ‘No, we have been making one film.’ Disney Channel was very younger and wasn’t in each family but. It has been so wonderful to get to observe the film develop and the channel develop over time. It is really due largely to the wonderful followers. They’ve cherished and embraced the films so arduous over time.”

“We obtained to do sequels. Now they’re on Disney+. I meet generations of households on a regular basis — grandmothers and daughters displaying their youngsters. It is such an honor to be part of individuals’s traditions that method. We might’ve by no means imagined that the films would nonetheless maintain a spot within the season on this method. It is actually simply so wonderful.”

At 13, Brown was solid as teen witch Marnie Piper in Hallloweentown, with the late Debbie Reynolds starring as her grandmother, Aggie. She reprised her position in Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001), throughout which she met her now-husband Daniel Kountz, and Halloweentown Excessive (2004).

Brown took a glance again at when she was first solid in Halloweentown, and recalled a few of her fondest members working with Reynolds, who handed away in 2016.

“I’ve cherished Halloween since I used to be a child, so I used to be really so thrilled. Particularly then — now supernatural, witches and some of these subjects are seen extra in scripted TV motion pictures — not a lot then, so it was actually distinctive and particular. Like, ‘I get to learn for a teenage witch?'” she mentioned. “As a child, like, Oh my god, to get to fake to do this was further thrilling to me. And with the manufacturing design of the whole lot, it actually felt at occasions like we have been elsewhere, like in a Halloweentown. Simply leaning into that in my childhood creativeness, it was simply thrilling to me to get to get pleasure from it personally in a option to and do the work.”

As for starring alongside Reynolds, Brown mentioned it was “really an additional particular privilege.”

“You hear such a legend goes to play your grandma and you do not know how it is going to be. She was simply the nicest, kindest, funniest — I imply bawdy humorousness — the whole lot. We had the perfect time. She all the time handled me as a peer, all of us youngsters, even after we have been younger. She actually needed to impart as a lot knowledge as she might.”

The actress mentioned she “wished [she] might have walked round with a tape recorder” to report “the whole lot” Reynolds mentioned.

“She advised so many tales, and also you assume you are going to keep in mind them. … You become older, and your reminiscence would not work in addition to you need it to,” she advised TooFab. “I want I had simply recorded the whole lot as a result of the whole lot was so wealthy and filled with historical past. She was the best possible.”

“Her favourite option to introduce herself to followers [who] would collect round set, she would stroll over and say: Good day, I am Princess Leia’s mother,” Brown added, referring to Reynolds’ late daughter, Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. “The group would get a kick out of it! They cherished it.”

Brown additionally shared the place she thinks Marie can be at the moment, so a few years later.

“I believe she would’ve all the time needed to proceed in a progressive [way], like, let’s take steps ahead, and do every kind of recent issues,” she mentioned. “I believe she would both be mayor, or working for mayor, or in some type of management place, perhaps educating a brand new class of witches or one thing too,” she mentioned. “I really feel like she can be wanting to take a seat in that seat for Halloweentown and be in cost in that method. I believe she would love that.”

And in at the moment’s age of reboots and revivals, Brown revealed that she’s “completely” right down to do one other movie sometime.

“I believe there [are] a ton of prospects of the place Marnie and the fam may very well be now. Disney is aware of I am right down to do one other,” she advised TooFab. “It is as much as them to make that call. Actually, followers ask me daily — messages, in-person, the whole lot. So yeah, we’d all like to do one other one.”

In the meantime, Brown additionally opened up about her relationship with Kountz. The 2 shared the display collectively in Halloweentown II, however did not reconnect till years later in 2016 and started relationship. The couple introduced their engagement in 2022 and tied the knot in April.

And whereas they’ve been collectively for a very long time now, followers who have been unaware nonetheless get stunned frequently after they see them on social media, which Brown mentioned is “the good factor.”

“We might’ve by no means imagined the wonderful response and assist that we have gotten again from the followers after we first made it public,” she advised TooFab. “There [are] nonetheless individuals until today — and we have now been collectively for eight years — [who] will see a put up and be like, ‘Oh my god! Are you collectively?’ And that is nonetheless a lot enjoyable. So yeah, it has been actually unimaginable to get to share on this with the followers a bit, too, and we’re so touched at their response over time. It is actually wonderful.”

As for what she’s loved most about married life to this point, Brown mentioned she and Koutz love that they will formally discuss with themselves as “husband and spouse.”

“We could not wait to do this, and we type of cheated just a little bit beforehand and would reference one another as that,” she shared. “We simply love that. I do not know. There’s one thing so official about attending to name him my husband now as a substitute of my fiancé. That is been an surprising little enjoyable half about it.”

In the meantime, Brown additionally spoke to TooFab about her partnership with STEM, together with a few of her prime suggestions and hacks for prepping and adorning for Halloween whereas additionally conserving the bugs away.

Whereas she mentioned that she likes “pretend bugs for décor” as a result of they add to the “spookiness,” she is not a fan of the “actual ones” — and we have now to agree.

“Over time with of adorning with the enjoyable issues with fall florals and jack-o-lanterns, issues like hay bales, individuals do not understand that these sorts of décor can encourage the true creepy-crawlers. So, amongst my suggestions, I believe it is actually vital to have merchandise like STEM Kills Ants Roaches and Spiders spray as a result of it helps you handle the true creepy crawlers. It is to be used each for indoors and for outdoor which is sweet. I used to be much more enthusiastic about this partnership as a result of they’re doing their enjoyable Halloween promotion,” she mentioned, including that followers can go to stembugout.com and “take an image of your pretend creepy crawlers,” and “it would magically flip into a reduction code.”

Brown mentioned she likes that the merchandise are made with important oils in order that they’re protected to make use of round pets, particularly Luna, her Goldendoodle.

See extra from Brown within the full interview the highest of this put up!