Halloween Is the Best Holiday
Belissa Escobedo (who will star in DC’s Blue Beetle) is no stranger to spooky shenanigans, having previously been featured in American Horror Stories before taking on the role of Izzy. In fact she loves them. “I mean, Halloween is the best holiday. Aside from that, I just have always loved like spooky Halloween movies because I feel like it can be extremes on both ends. And then you also see campiness and how it can be fun,” she said about going into the silly supernatural hijinks of Hocus Pocus 2. “And I think it’s amazing that, you have one end of horror, and then you have this end of camp. And they all bridge together in the same genre and come collectively to celebrate this fun holiday.”
As Izzy, Escobedo co-leads as a young witch who sides with her friend on her 16th birthday when they’re ditched by Cassie for a boy (things get a bit more complicated than that, but that’s the bare bones of it). “I think I just admire that she just has this, like, blind loyalty to these girls, [and] will do anything for them, no questions asked—totally would go against three evil witches.”
In many ways her power in the group is similar to Mary Sanderson’s. Najimy jumped in to affirm what makes Izzy so special: “You also have a lot of self-assuredness too. It wasn’t like you were just a lackey. You were actually very focused.”
