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Aug 29, 2021 · Vanessa Williams explains how she prepared for her return in the recently released Candyman reboot. Williams played Anne-Marie McCoy in Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman and reprised her role for Nia DaCosta’s movie. In the original, McCoy’s child named Anthony was kidnapped by Candyman.
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Candyman: Directed by Nia DaCosta. With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo. A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Nia DaCosta
- 2021-08-27
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony Mccoy
- Teyonah Parris as Brianna Cartwright
- Tony Todd as Daniel Robitaille / Candyman
- Colman Domingo as William Burke
- Vanessa Estelle Williams as Anne-Marie Mccoy
- Michael Hargrove as Sherman Fields/Candyman
Anthony McCoy is the protagonist of Candyman. He is an artist who moves with his girlfriend Brianna to the gentrified condo complex called Cabrini, which was constructed on the land where the housing project called Cabrini Green once stood in Chicago. McCoy learns about the legend of the Candyman and incorporates the story into his art in an attemp...
Brianna Cartwright is Anthony McCoy's girlfriend. They move together into Cabrini, the new condo complex. She works as an art gallery director, which shows the shared interest and investment in the art world she shares with her boyfriend. Brianna is played by Teyonah Parris, who recently made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Monica Rambeau in...
The titular role of Candyman will be played again by actor Tony Todd, who brought the character to the screen three times previously. The Candyman was originally a Black man named Daniel Robitaille who was brutally and horrifically murdered as a result of his illicit love affair with a white woman. He arrives as the Candyman when someone says his n...
William Burke is a local resident of Cabrini Green who introduces the adult McCoy to the legend of the Candyman. He serves as a sort of historian for the Cabrini Green and works to maintain the culture of a community losing itself to gentrification. In the trailer, he can be seen reading a book by author Clive Barker, whose short story The Forbidde...
Vanessa Estelle Williams is reprising her role from the 1992 Candyman film. She returns as Anne-Marie McCoy, a woman who lived in Cabrini Green and believed in the legend of the Candyman. She met Helen Lyle while Lyle was working on her thesis paper about urban legends. Anne-Marie is Anthony's mother and she and her family were terrorized by Candym...
The new Candymanfilm expands the mythology of the franchise and explains that the Candyman is not one specific person, but many. It's a true urban legend in that sense that the details of the legend vary, but certain details like the hook hand and the presence of bees are consistent through all iterations of the Candyman mythology. Tony Todd's orig...
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Aug 28, 2021 · Vanessa Williams plays Anne-Marie McCoy in both the original and new "Candyman." Universal Pictures; TriStar Pictures. The new "Candyman" movie, out now, is packed with references to the 1992...
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Vanessa Estelle Williams would also reprise her role as Anne-Marie, Anthony's mother. [63] Production for the film began in August 2019 and wrapped in September 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
Aug 31, 2021 · But the return of Anne-Marie McCoy, played by actress Vanessa Estelle Williams, likely shouldn’t surprise any fan who’s aware of the sequel’s premise and its lead character, Anthony McCoy...
Aug 11, 2021 · Most notably, Tony Todd is returning as Candyman, so is Vanessa Williams as her character Anne-Marie McCoy. The new victims for Candyman to pursue include Yahya Abudl-Mateen II (Aquaman, Watchmen) as Anthony, Teyonah Parris (WandaVision) as Brianna, Colman Domingo as William and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Troy.
