It’s official: Julie Andrews will not be returning for THE PRINCESS DIARIES 3.
“I think I probably passed…I think I’m retired, really, would be about the best description for that,” the actress told InStyle. “[The film’s creative team] asked me all last year if I would be keen to do it. It was very, very hard to say ‘no,’ but I did because I thought I had a wonderful ride, and this one I felt would flourish very well and wouldn’t need Granny going in there at my age.”
In recent years, Andrews has pivoted to voiceover roles, such as BRIDGERTON, MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU and AQUAMAN.
“I do it mostly to keep my brain alive,” she joked.
This news isn’t necessarily out of the blue; Andrews told Access Hollywood in 2023 that taking part in PRINCESS DIARIES 3 would “probably not” be possible.
Related: Anne Hathaway Gives PRINCESS DIARIES 3 Updates: ‘Moving in the Right Direction’
“It was talked about very shortly after [PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT] came out, but it’s now how many years since then?” she shared. “And I am that much older and Annie [Anne Hathaway] the princess, our queen, is so much older. And I am not sure whether it would float or run.”
THE PRINCESS DIARIES 3 has been in development for some time now, but director Adele Lim told Variety in May that work on the movie is “going well.”
“We just want to make the story right because it is a franchise that is so beloved by so many people,” she continued, explaining that they hope to delight a new generation of fans, while still entertaining the adult women who fell in love with the original movies.
Lim said, “There are so many movies that are wish fulfillment for princesses, we don’t have a lot of wish fulfillment movies for queens. That’s what we are setting out to do here, to show a woman in her full power.”
Hathaway recently updated fans on the PRINCESS DIARIES 3 production schedule, telling SiriusXM, “I’m busy making baby number three, and that has sort of taken the place of knowing exactly when I can make PRINCESS DIARIES 3” — the actress announced her pregnancy earlier this year.
“I can say I think we had a story breakthrough,” she added. “I think we are moving in the right direction. The script that we were working on — we kind of had to start over with this new direction, which is not the update I think anybody wants, but we all feel really good that this is gonna be the one.”
Even though Andrews won’t be part of the movie, fans can’t wait for PRINCESS DIARIES 3.
Questions or comments? Please write to us here.
