David Henrie and Selena Gomez had one non-negotiable when it came to finding a new cast for Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.
While showing PEOPLE around the set of the Disney Channel reboot, Henrie reflected on all of the memories he made while filming the original Wizards of Waverly Place series with his former costars from 2007 to 2012.
Over the years, the cast had become a family, and when he and Gomez got the reboot green-lit after pitching it “three, four years ago,” their biggest hope was to recreate that sense of community with a brand new group of young actors.
“Our cast is so wonderful,” he says of his new costars. “We feel like a season 3 show [where] everyone’s comfortable. There’s a loving atmosphere, it’s a great culture on set. And that’s what I think made the original show special was we were a family on camera and off camera.”
The cast of ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’.
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From “day one,” Henrie explains, “it was my goal and…
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