Brandy Believes Whitney Houston ‘Orchestrated’ Her Return as Cinderella in ‘Descendants 4’

“Descendants: The Rise of Red” features multiple returning faces, but not all of them are returning from the first “Descendants” films. For Brandy and Paolo Montalban, it’s a return to their 1997 breakout roles from “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” — and Brandy is pretty sure her original fairy godmother Whitney Houston “orchestrated” it.

The two actors play Cinderella and King Charming respectively in this film, now streaming on Disney+, and have a daughter named Chloe, played by Malia Baker. Of course, the “Descendants” universe already has a Fairy Godmother, played once again in “Rise of Red” by Melanie Paxson.

But Whitney Houston played Brandy’s fairy godmother back in 1997, and really was responsible for bringing the young singer onto the project.