Hollywood Legend, 90, Turns Down Sequel: ‘Think I’m Retired’

Julie Andrews is done with on-screen acting, she said in a new interview. The 90-year-old icon told InStyle on Monday that she would not be reprising her role in the third installment of The Princess Diaries film series alongside Anne Hathaway.

Andrews said that she may never return to screen acting at all. “I think I probably passed… I think I’m retired, really, would be about the best description for that,” she told the site.

What Happened

Andrews has continued her legendary career with voice acting roles, including narrating the Netflix hit series Bridgerton as Lady Whistledown. Her other latest voice roles include Minions: The Rise of Gru, The King’s Daughter, and Aquaman.

• As such, the Oscar-winning star won’t return as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries, in which Andrews plays the royal grandmother to normal San Francisco teen Mia (Hathaway) in the first two films.

• Hathaway revealed that she was reprising her role in the upcoming sequel in 2024, and has expressed her enthusiastic support for having Andrews join her.

• “We would go to where she was and put a green screen behind her and just make it happen,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2022.

Key Details

“I think we’ve had a story breakthrough,” she said.

• Hathaway, who is expecting her third child with her husband Adam Shulman, said earlier this month that while she doesn’t know when she can begin production on the film after welcoming her new baby.

• She added, “I very much doubt” that she would reprise the role.

What Reports Say

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• Continued reporting by The Daily Beast as more details emerge