Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff, and Catherine Tate Join Cynthia Erivo in Bad Fairies

Erivo revealed the new cast tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, teasing a song from the film and surprising the crowd with Minogue in the audience

LOS ANGELES, October 16, 2026--Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff, and Catherine Tate have joined the voice cast of Bad Fairies, the original animated musical comedy from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation. Minogue will voice Clowder, the Cat Witch, Groff will voice Robin Goodfellow, and Tate will voice the Fairy Gothmother. They join Cynthia Erivo, who leads the film as Jayne Staplegun.

Erivo shared the news herself tonight during Let Me Sing to You, her one-night-only concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The second half of the evening opened with an orchestral piece built on "Hard to Believe," Jayne's song from the film. Erivo then introduced audiences to Jayne, one of a group of delightfully defiant, rule-breaking fairies. After announcing Groff and Tate, she revealed one final surprise, celebrating Minogue seated in the audience as the latest member of the cast.

"Bad Fairies is about characters who break the rules to do some good, and Cynthia brings that spirit to everything she does, so there was no better way to share this news than from the Hollywood Bowl stage in her voice," said Bill Damaschke, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. "With Kylie, Jonathan and Catherine joining her, we have a cast as bold and joyful as the film itself."

"From the moment we began developing Bad Fairies, we knew it was exactly the kind of story Locksmith exists to tell: funny, surprising and full of heart," said Natalie Fischer, CEO of Locksmith Animation. "Cynthia Erivo's extraordinary voice has been the soul of this film since she came on board, and we're thrilled to have Kylie, Jonathan and Catherine bring their enormous talents to these characters. We can't wait for audiences to meet them next May."

"I'm so excited to be part of Bad Fairies, alongside the incredible Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Groff and such a brilliant cast of voices," said Minogue. "And getting to play both a cat and a witch? It's a little bit magical, a little bit mischievous and a whole lot of fun."

"Clowder needed to be impossibly glamorous and hilariously chaotic in the same breath, and Kylie was always the dream," said director Megan Nicole Dong. "She has made the character completely her own, and she brings this amazing energy to the booth that ends up in every frame."

"Jonathan finds the comedy and the heart in a character at exactly the same time, which is everything Robin Goodfellow needs, and there is no one funnier than Catherine to play our Fairy Gothmother," said co-director Olivier Staphylas. "Our animators are building on our fabulous actors' instincts and comic timing to create characters that feel both larger than life and genuinely real."