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Kylie Cantrall is seeing Red this summer. Disney tapped the 19-year-old actress and “Unsure” singer to take its wickedly successful TV movie franchise in a new direction. As star of — the fourth film in the franchise, — the Queen of Hearts’s daughter leads a new crop of Villain Kids (VKs).

There’s troublemaking, time travel, transfixing tunes and a touching tribute to late co-star . “This really is a new story,” Cantrall tells Yahoo Entertainment about taking the reins from the original cast, which expressed reluctance to continue after in 2019. Bringing the drama in the new chapter is , who conjures up trouble as Red’s menacing mother.



Brandy slips back into kind-hearted Cinderella’s shoes 27 years after first playing the role. China Anne McClain, who plays Uma, returns to help in “passing that torch” to the new generation of VKs. Cantrall talks to Yahoo about all things Red as well as her path to stardom, which began with a YouTube series reviewing Disney shows when she was 8 before starring in them soon after.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Oh, I cried. When I got the call, my agent actually did one of those silly things where he was like: “Hey, Kylie, I have some bad news.

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you're gonna be really busy in January because you booked !” So at first, I was like, “Oh no!” Then it was surreal as it set in. A good 10 times. I was obsessed with the first one as a kid.

I remember [binge-watching] it over and .

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