Selena Gomez Reunites 'Wizards of Waverly Place' Costar's Pre-Spinoff
David DeLuise, David Henrie, Selena Gomez and Maria Canals-Barrera.
Thanks to Maria Canals-Barrera/InstagramWhat is that, a hat? No, it's one Wizards of Waverly Place cast reunion!
'The Russians ❤️🪄coming back,” David DeLuise And David Henrythat father and son played Wizards of Waverly Place, captioned one joint Instagram post on Friday, January 26.
DeLuise, 52, and Henrie, 34, were all smiles as they posed alongside former costars Selena Gomez And Maria Canals-Barrera.
Wizards of Waverly Place – which shot to fame Gomez, now 31, originally aired on the Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012. Henrie, Gomez and Jake T Austin played the three Russo siblings, who were secretly magicians in training while balancing normal teenage life in New York City. Earlier this month, news broke that Henrie and Gomez, who played the eldest Russo siblings Justin and Alex, would be reprising their roles in a new TV pilot.
Selena Gomez scored her breakout role as teenage wizard Alex Russo in Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place. The series, which ran for four seasons from 2007 to 2012, followed Alex and her brothers, Justin and Max, played by David Henrie and Jake T. Austin, as they learned the ins and outs of the wizard. […]
“You guys will love the new Wizards show!” Wizards mother Canals-Barrera, 57, flowed through Instagram on Friday.
Several former Wizards guest stars commented on the sweet reunion photos.
“This makes me so happy” Bailee Madisonwho briefly played a gender-swapped version of Austin's Max in the final season, wrote via Instagram comments.
Josh Sussmanfor his part, added: “The best TV family! ❤️❤️❤️.”
Henrie and Gomez announced on January 18 that they were producing a spinoff Wizards of Waverly Place which will revolve around an adult Justin (Henrie) and his family. Justin, who ended the OG series finale as a full-fledged wizard and head of the wizarding school WizTech, has since given up his powers. In the pilot, he returns to the world of magic when he meets a young wizard named Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) who need a mentor. It is not yet known what Alex (Gomez) has been up to in the new series.
Gomez and her former TV family have kept in regular contact since the show ended. In fact, she and Henrie have been perfecting their reboot pitch for years.
“Nothing has happened yet, but there is a lot of talk [of a revival]”, said Henrie Access in August 2020. “We all talk about it for fun. Everyone would be down, but it's only a matter of time, I think. We talked about it: Gregg [Sulkin], Selena, me, Jake. I think what we said [about] what made the show special was that we were a family and the family business was together as a family unit.
David Henrie, Maria Canals-Barrera, Jake T. Austin, David DeLuise and Selena Gomez.
WireImageHe continued at the time: “I think this is a great place to start [potential new] show would be the opposite version of that, so you have to go somewhere in the series. So if you were to start the show where the family is divided and not united.
Henrie further speculated that Gomez's Alex would be a big fashionista, like 'the Meryl Streep of the Wizarding World,” while Austin's Max is said to own a chain of sub shops. (While Max lost the wizarding competition in the OG series finale, Jerry gave him the keys to the family's sandwich shop.)