Set at Christmas time, Godmothered is a comedy about Eleanor, a young, inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training (Jillian Bell) who upon hearing that her chosen profession is facing extinction, decides to show the world that people still need fairy godmothers. Finding a mislaid letter from a 12-year-old girl in distress, Eleanor tracks her down and discovers that the girl, Mackenzie, is now a 40-year-old single mom (Isla Fisher) working at a news station in Boston. Having lost her husband several years earlier, Mackenzie has all but given up on the idea of “Happily Ever After,” but Eleanor is bound and determined to give Mackenzie a happiness makeover, whether she likes it or not.

Entertainment Affair recently joined Bell and Fisher for a virtual press conference with some of their fellow Godmothered cast members, including Santiago Cabrera, who plays Hugh, Mackenzie’s on-air reporter partner; Jillian Shea Spaeder and Willa Skye, who play Mackenzie’s young daughters, Jane and Mia, respectively; Emmy® winner Jane Curtin, who plays Moira, The Motherland’s estimable headmistress; and Artemis Pebdani and Utkarsh Ambudkar, who portray Mackenzie’s colleagues at the Boston-based TV news station where she works. Check out a few highlights and watch the full video of the event below.

To help get into character, Jillian Bell made sure she was dressed for success. “It started with a corset,” the actress says. Bell remembers, “They were all huge ball gowns. I remember seeing other women there who were trying on dresses to be married, and they were looking at me and I was in the poofiest thing, falling out of the dressing room, and they were all like, ‘Congratulations!’”

The cast was aware that the film continues Disney’s enduring legacy of fairy godmothers. “The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella—she’s the O.G. She’s the original godmother… That’s the one to try to beat,” Bell stresses. “I played the wicked queen just one night, overnight, in Disneyland,” Curtin shares. “We shot it from midnight until six o’clock the next morning, and I had the cape and the things coming out of my fingernails when I go to the mirror. Oh, [it was] awesome.”

The modern idea of “happily-ever-after” that’s featured in Godmothered is meaningful to the film’s cast. “For young girls watching, you know, happily-ever-after doesn’t necessarily include a castle, a prince, and a dress. It can be blessings you have in your life with your family or work,” Fisher says.

Godmothered is streaming exclusively on Disney+ starting December 4^th.