"My hope is that people fall in love with family shows again," she said of the new four-part conclusion.
Selena Gomez and her Wizards of Waverly Place family are giving fans one last look at the behind-the-scenes magic of their franchise, with the singer-actress sharing her thoughts about saying goodbye to Alex Russo in honor of spin-off Wizards Beyond Waverly Place‘s four-part finale that dropped Tuesday (Aug. 4).
In an online Entertainment Tonight special posted the same day that the series conclusion premiered on Disney+, Gomez looks back on how far she’s come since she first made her debut as Alex on the original Disney Channel series in 2007. After running for four seasons, Wizards of Waverly Place wrapped in 2012 — more than a decade after which the Rare Beauty founder and costar David Henrie teamed up to resurrect the show for a reboot.
“This is it. This is the end,” Gomez said between previews of scenes from the Wizards Beyond Waverly Place finale and behind-the-scenes footage of the cast hugging and laughing on set. “It’s really surreal to say that I’m done playing this character.”
“My hope is that people fall in love with family shows again, and that they hold this to a standard of appreciating what it means to just have a show that the whole family can get together, watch, hopefully laugh,” she continued. “I’m going to really miss that.”
