Why Julie Andrews Has a Cameo in ‘Aquaman’ But Not ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

Julie Andrews makes a cameo in a holiday movie that is opening this weekend, but it’s not the one you expect.Instead of soaring down on an umbrella in Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” – which she won an Oscar for in the original – she lends her voice to a character in “Aquaman.” And it’s a bizarre cameo at that.TheWrap reported last month that Andrews appears briefly in a key role as Karathen, a racist gatekeeper figure blocking Arthur Curry’s (Jason Momoa) way, and who disapproves that the would-be king of Atlantis does not have fully Atlantean blood (his father is human).

But, the 83-year-old actress was more than willing to drop the practically perfect moniker and to go full-on sea monster.“We wanted the Karathen to have the voice of a classic British actress,

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