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Selena Gomez recently played a mother in a very dramatic way.
She is reprising her role as Alex Russo in Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.
After the dramatic Season 2 finale, she’s opening up about her own hopes for motherhood.
Selena and her husband Benny Blanco want to be parents. But be warned: this discussion involves some WBWP spoilers!
To set the stage for Selena Gomez to comment on becoming a mother, we need to delve deeper Wizards of Waverly Place and the recent ending of its spinoff.
Selena Gomez played Alex Russo masterfully in the original series. Her deliveries looked like Megan Mullally in Will and Gracewhich is one of our greatest compliments.
The iconic Disney Channel series followed Alex and his two brothers as they learn magic, face danger, while also learning that some absurd magical laws will eventually require them to compete to determine who keeps their magic.
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is a modern spinoff that follows Billie, a young witch who must receive training alongside Alex’s two nephews, Milo and Roman.
The secret twist, revealed at the very end of season 2 (which aired this week), is that Billie is Alex’s daughter.
There was more to the big reveal – including, of course, that Alex Russo had to sacrifice himself.
(Is she dead? Not necessarily. Not every narrative surrogate sacrifice involves actual death, and her fate remains ambiguous)
Speaking of ambiguous fates, Disney has not yet renewed the series for a 3rd season.
We live in a world where the companies that produce television are so desperate for the next big thing that they drown most programs in their infancy, rather than giving them time to build an audience and following.
However, one detail that is catching people’s attention is what Selena wrote after the finale aired.
After the dramatic Season 2 finale, Selena Gomez took her Instagram Story to share a screenshot of that exciting moment on your screen.
“Alex Russo is a mother,” she acknowledged in her Story post.
“I hope,” wrote Selena, “one day, that will be me.”
She had more to say in a interview on Disney Channel’s YouTube page.
She and Janice LeAnn Brown, who plays Billie Russo on the series, discussed the big reveal and what it was like filming it.
“It was very emotional, especially for me and her after the table read,” expressed the young actress.
Selena chimed in: “We were just puddles.”
In previous interviews, Selena has spoken about how she feels playing Alex helped shape her into who she is today.
Not just because her Disney Channel role helped catapult her to fame — but because there’s something of a trade-off when actors play characters for a long time. A bit of the actor becomes part of the character, and sometimes the transfusion goes both ways.
We already knew that Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco want to have children one day.
Obviously, Selena’s health battle over the years — and her treatments — have made this issue complex. Doctors warned her about this.
However, both a gestational carrier (commonly called “surrogacy”) and adoption are on the table.
Selena loves children. She spent much of her life and career entertaining them.
We are sure she will be an incredible mother.
Also, Disney Plus needs to renew Wizards Beyond Waverly Place immediately and show us that Alex is okay. Kids aren’t the only ones who feel invested, you know.
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