Hailee Steinfeld has said that recording a song for Disney’s Hexed made her reflect on becoming a mother, as she voiced a film about a mother and daughter.
The actress and singer covers Magic, a track from The Cars’ 1984 album Heartbeat City, for the animated film.
She released the song on 23 October.
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Writing in her Beau Society newsletter, she said: “While we were recording, I couldn’t help but think about how perfect the timing of all of this feels.”
She explained that she was making a mother-daughter story while becoming a mother herself, and that she imagines her daughter dancing to the song in the kitchen one day.
Steinfeld recorded the track with her childhood friend Demitri Lerios.
She described it as “an amazing, very impromptu opportunity to sing on the record.”
She also wrote: “Nothing compares to when the two (creative) loves of my life — acting and music — come together under one roof.”
In Hexed, which opens in cinemas on 25 November, Steinfeld voices Billie, a teenager who discovers secret magical abilities that take her from suburbia into a witch realm called Hexe.
Rashida Jones voices Billie’s mother, Alice. The cast also includes Walton Goggins, Jodie Foster, Henry Winkler, Dan Stevens, Tracey Ullman and Stephen Fry.
Steinfeld welcomed her daughter, Harper, in April. She is married to Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, whom she wed on 31 May 2025.
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