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

It has been over 25 years for the reason that 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 films, and asking her “on daily basis” 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 youngster star mirrored on the franchise’s legacy, and the way Disney Channel Authentic Motion pictures are nonetheless cherished right now.

“I’m so honored,” Brown mentioned of the franchise’s legacy. “We have been simply purported to make one Halloweentown film again within the day. Individuals 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 superb to get to look at the film develop and the channel develop over time. It is actually due largely to the superb followers. They’ve cherished and embraced the flicks 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 children. It is such an honor to be part of individuals’s traditions that manner. We might’ve by no means imagined that the flicks would nonetheless maintain a spot within the season on this manner. It is actually simply so superb.”

At 13, Brown was forged as teen witch Marnie Piper in Hallloweentown, with the late Debbie Reynolds starring as her grandmother, Aggie. She reprised her function 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 forged 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 actually so thrilled. Particularly then — now supernatural, witches and some of these matters are seen extra in scripted TV films — 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 try this was further thrilling to me. And with the manufacturing design of the whole lot, it actually felt at occasions like we have been some other place, 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 strategy to and do the work.”

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

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

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

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

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

Brown additionally shared the place she thinks Marie could be right now, so a few years later.

“I believe she would’ve at all times wished 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 operating for mayor, or in some sort of management place, possibly educating a brand new class of witches or one thing too,” she mentioned. “I really feel like she could be wanting to sit down in that seat for Halloweentown and be in cost in that manner. I believe she would love that.”

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

“I believe there [are] a ton of potentialities of the place Marnie and the fam could possibly be now. Disney is aware of I am all the way down to do one other,” she informed TooFab. “It is as much as them to make that call. Actually, followers ask me on daily basis — 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 screen collectively in Halloweentown II, however did not reconnect till years later in 2016 and commenced courting. 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 once they see them on social media, which Brown mentioned is “the good factor.”

“We might’ve by no means imagined the superb response and assist that we have gotten again from the followers once we first made it public,” she informed TooFab. “There [are] nonetheless individuals until at the present time — and we now have been collectively for eight years — [who] will see a publish 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 superb.”

As for what she’s loved most about married life thus far, Brown mentioned she and Koutz love that they’ll formally seek advice from themselves as “husband and spouse.”

“We could not wait to try this, and we sort of cheated a little bit 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 an alternative of my fiancé. That is been an sudden 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 holding the bugs away.

Whereas she mentioned that she likes “faux bugs for décor” as a result of they add to the “spookiness,” she is not a fan of the “actual ones” — and we now have 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 actual 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 actual creepy crawlers. It is to be used each for indoors and for open air 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 faux creepy crawlers,” and “it’ll magically flip into a reduction code.”

Brown mentioned she likes that the merchandise are made with important oils so 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 publish!