The trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie The School For Good and Evil premiered earlier this month on June 7th. With stunning visuals and a sweeping shot of the titular school, it's clear director Paul Fieg is here to deliver a sweeping epic worthy of the books by Soman Chainani. While the school full of fairytale heroes and villains promises to be a fertile ground for stunning visuals and a true coming-of-age story, it will be a while before doors open for fans to enter.
However, there are still plenty of projects featuring the cast of the film for audiences to check out. From Broadway legends to Disney+ stars, the cast of The School For Good And Evil packs some serious star power.
Sofia Wylie - High School Musical: The Musical (2019-2022)
Streaming on Disney+
Wylie plays the outcast Agatha in The School For Good and Evil. Wylie's most recent and well-known role is Gina Porter in High School Musical: The Musical. The series is about the school where the High School Musical movies were filmed putting on the stage version and other musicals. Other roles include Buffy Driscoll in Andi Mack and Mia Brooks in Shook.
Wylie's Gina is a very talented performer who schemes to get the lead role in High School Musical after she loses out. While not the nicest person, she is sympathetic. She never gets to stay in one place because her mom works for FEMA, and she has difficulty making friends. She does go through character development and gradually finds her place in her new school. Wylie can play complicated and not always likable characters.
Sophia Anne Caruso - Beetlejuice The Musical (2019-2020)
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Caruso plays Sophie in The School for Good and Evil, who desperately wants to be a fairytale hero. Caruso has had a few onscreen performances but is most known for her original Broadway cast role as Lydia Deetz, a teenage girl dealing with her mother's death in Beetlejuice The Musical. A recently deceased couple, Adam and Barbra Maitland, and Lydia - who just moved into the Maitland's house - enlist the help of the devious ghost Beetlejuice.
Lydia is heavily influenced by the death of her mother. She wants to visit the afterlife to be reunited with her mom. Lydia has a very odd friendship with Beetlejuice - they scare away her father and his girlfriend and then spend the next several days scaring everyone who comes to the house. Caruso's Lydia is a complex mixture of very sympathetic characters with a slightly dark edge.
Kerry Washington - Scandal (2012-2018)
Streaming on Hulu
Washington plays Professor Dovey in The School for Good and Evil. Washington has had many featured roles, the most well-known being Olivia Pope in Scandal. Pope is a professional fixer who used to be a White House Communications Director and now runs a crisis management firm. Some of Washington's notable past roles include Broomhilda von Shaft in Django Unchained and Mia Warren in Little Fires Everywhere.
Washington's Olivia Pope begins Scandal as the hero and ends it as a villain. She is a highly ambitious woman who is obsessed with the power which eventually corrupts her. She does have some good attributes, however, as she does care about her employees and clients. She also has a complex relationship with President Fitzgerald Grant, her lover who she conspired to get elected.
Laurence Fishburne - The Matrix (1999)
Streaming on HBO Max
Fishburne plays The School Master in The School for Good and Evil, adding another role to his decades-long career. One of his highlights was Morpheus in The Matrix. The Matrix is about Neo (Keanu Reeves) a computer hacker who is contacted by Morpheus (Fishburne), a notorious hacker after he is targeted by the police. Morpheus then reveals that the world he knows is a trick by an evil cyber-intelligence. His more recent recurring roles include Barrett Fasoose in MacGruber and Pops in Black-ish.
Fishburne's Morpheus is the mentor figure of Neo, who imparts his philosophical wisdom. Interestingly, he has the reputation of being a terrorist, despite him ultimately being a good person who wakes people up from the illusion they are in. Morpheus survived the Matrix sequel films, which is impressive as mentor characters usually don't survive sequels.
Ben Kingsley - Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (2021)
Streaming on Amazon Prime
Kingsley's role in The School for Good and Evil is unknown. Kingsley has many well-known roles but he is most known for his role as Gandhi in the film of the same name. Gandhi is a biopic about the Indian lawyer who was the leader of a revolution by way of non-violent protest against the British. Some more recent roles include Trevor Slattery in Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Pastor Byron Brown in Perpetual Grace, LTD.
Kingsley as Gandhi is very convincing in his portrayal of the real-life man. Kingsley reenacted the real-life struggles Gandhi went through, such as his hunger strike. He also plays Gandhi at multiple ages, from him as a young man to death. This is very impressive that Kingsley was able to portray a real-life person so close to how he was.
Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019)
Streaming on Netflix
Bloom's role in The School for Good and Evil is unknown. Bloom is most known for playing Rebecca Bunch in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This musical show is about a successful but unhappy New York lawyer who follows her summer camp ex-boyfriend to his hometown of West Covina, California in her search for happiness. Other notable appearances include Laura in BoJack Horseman and multiple roles in Robot Chicken.
Bloom's Rebecca is a twist on the romantic comedy protagonist. She gets involved in the stereotypical plots of the heroine of a romantic comedy, however, she has very serious anxiety and depression. She has positive attributes such as trying to be a good friend, however, she can sometimes come across as clingy, jealous, and sometimes even a stalker.
Michelle Yeoh - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Streaming on HBO Max
Yeoh plays Professor Anemone in The School for Good and Evil. While Yeoh has been in several films including many martial arts movies, she is probably most well known for playing Yu Shu Lien in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film is about Li Mu Bai, a Chinese swordsman who enlists Yu She Lien to deliver a famous sword - the Green Destiny - to Governor Yu, however, a masked thief steals it. A few of her more recent roles include Eleanor Young in Crazy Rich Asians, Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery, and Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Yeoh's Yu Shu Lien relationship with Li Mu Bai is central. Li's attraction to Yu stops his path to change his ways and join a monastery. She can't act on her feelings for him because she feels it would be disrespectful to her dead fiancé. Yu is very mature and concerned with duty but expresses unsaid attraction to Li.
Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Streaming on Amazon Prime
Theron plays Lady Lesso in The School for Good and Evil. Theron has several memorable roles, however, one of her recent roles that stands out is Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. This film is about Furiosa, a woman who rebels against an evil tyrant while searching for the homeland of her childhood, the Green Place, with the help of Max (Tom Hardy). Other notable roles include Aileen Wuornos in Monster (Academy Award winner), Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman, and Morticia Addams in the animated The Addams Family and The Addams Family 2.
Theron's Imperator Furiosa is one of the main heroes. She leads a rebellion against Immortan Joe, the evil leader of the Citadel, and frees his five wives. Her motivations for rescuing the wives are ambiguous - she could have done it out of empathy for them or she could have done it out of revenge against Immortan Joe. She is a very heroic character, probably even more than Max himself in this film.
Mark Heap - Friday Night Dinner (2011-2020)
Streaming on Amazon Prime
Heap plays Professor Manley in The School for Good and Evil. Heap is most well known for playing the eccentric neighbor Jim Bell in Friday Night Dinner. This show is about the two Goodman brothers and their dinners every Friday night at their parent's house, where something always goes wrong. Other recent roles include Peter Cole in The Trouble with Maggie Cole and Mr. Thomas in The House.
Heap's Jim Bell is a very eccentric neighbor whose visits to the Goodman home began slightly creepy, with him harboring an inappropriate crush on mother Jackie. Over time he became more harmlessly quirky as a character. Jim and his dog Wilson get into many antics throughout the series, always getting involved in whatever occurred at the Goodman household.