There are so many reasons Kylie Cantrall is excited to be the lead in Disney’s Descendants: The Rise of Red — but nothing beats the “insane” fact that she got to work alongside her childhood hero, Brandy . “I feel like I may have manifested working with Brandy because of the fact that, I kid you not, I had a CD of her Never Say Never album in my dad’s old car that he had when I was growing up,” Cantrall, 19, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the musical’s Friday, July 12, release. “There’s, like, a little cassette in it.
You could put CDs in there and I would just play that album every single time I got in the car on the way to school. I knew it front and backwards.” Calling Brandy her “vocal bible” growing up, Cantrall said just getting to be in the singer’s “presence” was a really “special” and personal milestone.
“My younger self was freaking out,” she gushed. “She’s so kind and just the most humble. It was so, so sweet.
” Rise of Red serves as the fourth film — and newest chapter — of the Descendants franchise. Cantrall stars as Red, the rebellious daughter of the Queen of Hearts ( Rita Ora ), while Brandy plays the iconic Cinderella. The film follows Red as she and Cinderella’s daughter, Chloe ( Malia Baker ), travel back in time in an attempt to undo the traumatic event that led the Queen of Hearts down a villainous path — and ended her years-long friendship with Cinderella.
While Ora, 33, plays the deliciously evil.
