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| YOUNG DAVE is a perpetually insecure, frightened 10-year-old, in love with classmate Becky Barnes and not quite sure what to do about it. When he finds himself mysteriously drawn into the odd curiosity shop called the Arcana Cabana, he encounters sorcerer Balthazar Blake and learns—to his disbelief—that he’s going to be a powerful sorcerer one day. “Dave is very unsure of himself, awkward; he’s a geek…but the kind of geek you like,” says Jake Cherry, who was cast as the young protagonist.
SUN LOK is an ancient, but perpetually young, Chinese sorcerer and Morganian. When he’s unlocked from his Grimhold by Horvath, Sun Lok wreaks havoc in Chinatown during a lively festival by materializing a fearsome fire-breathing dragon. “Sun Lok has been in a little container for thousands and thousands of years, and when he’s let out, he’s really, really angry,” says Gregory Woo, who plays the mad Morganian.
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is a very young Morganian sorcerer who was not only accused of being a witch in 17th-century Salem, Mass., but actually was one. In her black-and-white Puritan clothing, Abigail looks like the embodiment of innocence…but it’s totally misleading. “I’m an evil sorcerer who kidnaps Becky for Horvath after being released from the Grimhold,” says Nicole Ehinger, who was tapped by filmmakers to play the deceptive young sorcerer. |
