Evan Rachel Wood has confirmed she will not appear in Practical Magic 2, telling Entertainment Tonight she was never asked to return for the sequel.

Wood broke the news on the red carpet premiere of her new FX series The Shards, in an exclusive interview with ET correspondent Emily Curl. She had previously shared the news herself in June 2025 via Instagram Stories, writing that she had offered to return for even a single scene or line and was told the roles were being recast (Variety).

Wood was 11 years old when the original Practical Magic arrived in cinemas in 1998. She played Kylie Owens, the daughter of Sandra Bullock's witch character, Sally Owens. Alexandra Artrip played Antonia Owens, daughter to Nicole Kidman's Gillian. The two child roles formed the emotional heart of a film that became a durable cult favourite over the decades since its release.

In the sequel, those roles now go to Joey King and Maisie Williams respectively. King steps into Wood's part; Williams takes over from Artrip.

Four original cast members are returning. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprise their lead roles, with Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest back as the Owens sisters' eccentric aunts. The sequel is adapted from Alice Hoffman's novel The Book of Magic, a follow-up to her 1995 source novel Practical Magic.

Wood noted that Hoffman's book would have made sense to bring her character back, and suggested the film appears not to be following the novel's storyline. She called the situation "sad," citing the bond she formed with the cast as a child.

Practical Magic 2 is scheduled for release on 11 September 2026. The project was officially announced in June 2024, when Entertainment Tonight first reported the sequel was in development (ET Online).

Wood can next be seen in The Shards, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which debuts on FX on 5 August. Entertainment Tonight posted a clip of her Practical Magic 2 comments to its official Instagram account on 27 July 2026, alongside the full exclusive article on its website, titled "Evan Rachel Wood Still 'Sad' She's Not Returning in 'Practical Magic 2' (Exclusive)" (Variety).

For fans who grew up with the original, the recasting closes a door that stayed open in the source material. Wood's Kylie was the audience surrogate in 1998, the child inheriting a family legacy of magic and loss. The sequel will hand that inheritance to a new generation of actors, with a September release slot that plants it squarely in the autumn corridor where studios place their adult-skewing titles.