Disney Animation has teamed up with illusionist Zach King and Hailee Steinfeld, the voice of Billie in Hexed, for a game of "cake or fake." The short video went up yesterday at noon MST, 2 weeks before the movie opens in theaters on November 25. Check out the official post down below:
Which Cauldron Was Cake
The video takes place on a set dressed like the world of Hexed, with autumn trees, a crescent moon and a castle painted on the backdrop behind King and Steinfeld. A table in front of them holds 2 black cauldrons with the Hexed logo on the side, each topped with white fluffy filling, while a "cake or fake?" caption floats over their heads.
King slices into the first cauldron with a knife and reveals that it is a chocolate cake. When he cuts the 2nd, it folds flat and turns out to be cardboard. King then reaches up to the "cake or fake?" caption itself and breaks off a piece. The sign is cake too, and King eats it while Steinfeld watches.
What Hexed Is About
Disney describes Hexed as an all-new magical coming-of-age story. Steinfeld voices Billie, an impulsive and unconventional teenage girl who discovers that she has secret magical abilities. Those powers launch her out of suburbia and into Hexe, a huge world of witches, where she is forced to team up with her cautious mother, Alice, voiced by Rashida Jones. Together, the 2 uncover family mysteries that could change the world of witches forever.
Walton Goggins voices Beef Roger Crummchuk, a reclusive 3-eyed magical cat, and Jodie Foster plays Queen Celeste, who will stop at nothing to keep her power over Hexe. The cast also includes Tracey Ullman as the enchanted quill Ms. Quill, Stephen Fry as the magical journal Elias Quire, Henry Winkler as the potoo bird Nigel and Dan Stevens as Hieronymous, Queen Celeste's Grand Councillor of the Throne. The full cast and story rundown is in Disney's Hexed: Release Date, Voice Cast, Story And Everything Else To Know About The Witch Movie.
Who Made Hexed
Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand direct Hexed, with Josie Trinidad as co-director. Veerasunthorn co-directed Wish, and Hand co-directed Moana 2. Dana Ledoux Miller and Jared Bush, Walt Disney Animation Studios' chief creative officer, wrote the screenplay. Roy Conli and Yvett Merino produced the film, and Kris Bowers composed the score.
The story changed during development. When Bush first announced Hexed at Destination D23 in August 2025, it was described as the story of an awkward teenage boy and his Type A mother, who discover that the boy's unusual traits may be magical powers. By CinemaCon in April 2026, Disney had shifted the story to Billie and Alice, with Steinfeld and Jones announced as the leads. Ullman and Fry joined with the first trailer in June, and Foster and Goggins were added in August.
Steinfeld also recorded a cover of "Magic" by The Cars for the film. The Hexed soundtrack, including that cover, arrives on November 20.
Here is the official trailer:
Lilo & Scratch Plays First
Hexed will play in theaters with Lilo & Scratch, a new Lilo & Stitch short co-directed by Veerasunthorn and Malcon Pierce. Set shortly after the 2002 movie, the short has Stitch, voiced by Chris Sanders, facing Scratch, a cat-like alien that Lilo adopts. It is the first Lilo & Stitch project made at Walt Disney Animation Studios since the original film. The short's latest poster is covered in Lilo & Scratch Poster Puts A 4-Armed Stitch Over His New Rival Before The Short Hits Theaters With Hexed.
Tickets for Hexed are on sale now, and the PG-rated movie opens on Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving.
Did you guess that the "cake or fake?" sign was cake before Zach King took a bite?
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