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The crowd was in for a surprise at the premiere of Disney+’s newest series, “Agatha All Along,” when special guests made an appearance on the purple carpet Monday.
Kathryn Hahn, 51, and Aubrey Plaza, 40, who play Agatha Harkness and Rio Vidal, respectively, were joined by their former “Parks and Recreation” co-stars Amy Poehler and Adam Scott.
Poehler, 53, and Scott, 51, first stopped to take pictures with Plaza before connecting with Hahn on the press line.
“Parks and Recreation,” which ran from 2009-2015 on NBC, starred Poehler and Scott as married couple Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, while Plaza played city employee April Ludgate.
Hahn, meanwhile, had a recurring guest star role as Washington, DC, political know-it-all Jen Barkley.
Hahn told the Hollywood Reporter that she and Plaza never had any scenes together while working on “Parks and Recreation.”
“And so I think we passed each other in hallways,” Hahn said on Monday night. “But for this to be the first time we really work together was incredible.”
“I think she’s such an extraordinary actor and then to be able to play with her like this was like so fun,” Hahn spoke about Plaza.
Hahn rocked the carpet with Rodarte’s FW23 Velvet Embroidered Fringed Dress that was ruffled at the top and flowed into a sheer black dress.
Plaza, for her part, donned a strapless minidress under a sheer top gown, both draped in a floral design. She paired the dress with black pumps.
Marvel Studios and Disney+’s “Agatha All Along” is the spinoff from Disney+’s 2021 hit series “WandaVision” starring Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Hahn.
“Agatha All Along” follows witch Agatha Harkness as she begins her journey to reclaim her powers, known as the “Witches’ Road Trials,” and form a new coven of witches.
“Like WandaVision, it’s more of a puzzle box show. There are a lot of twists and turns, a lot of mystery and a lot of reveals. There is a lot of genre pastiche, allusions to like familiar pop culture things,” show creator Jac Schaeffer said of both series to the Hollywood Reporter. “And the way that it’s different is, yeah, it’s really spooky, it’s dark.
Schaeffer described Agatha as “a little more evil than she is nice.”
There will be musical elements to the new series, something Schaeffer knew she wanted to incorporate since the beginning.
“There was no way we were going to do an Agatha show without a musical element given that her song took off so incredibly in WandaVision and Kathryn’s so musical,” Schaeffer told THR.
The song “Agatha All Along” was written by “Frozen” composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and sung by Hahn in “WandaVision.”
The track also won an 2021 Emmy for “Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics” and placed fifth on iTunes “Top 100 Singles Chart.”
The show ran through several title changes, including “Agatha: House of Harkness,” “Agatha: Coven of Chaos” and “Agatha: Darkhold Diaries,” before choosing the current title.
“Well, because she was kind of behind the whole thing. All the name changes, all the everything. She was the one,” Hahn explained. “I think that she’s always had kind of main character energy the whole time.”
The nine-episodic series also stars Patti LuPone, Paul Adelstein, Joe Locke and Sasheer Zamata. The first two episodes will drop on Disney+ on September 18, then single episodes will be released weekly.
