SPOILERS: This post contains details about Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
As the Four Horsemen return for another magic trick in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, director Ruben Fleischer is proud he got the whole band back together.
Following the absence of Isla Fisher‘s Henley from the 2016 sequel, for which she was swapped out with Lizzy Caplan‘s Lula, Fleischer said he was “so glad that we were able to feature both women” in the third installment of the franchise.
“Because they’re both incredible actors and both so funny and so talented,” he told Bleeding Cool of the pair who previously starred together in 2012’s Bachelorette.
While Fisher’s return was advertised in Now You Don’t‘s marketing, Caplan’s appearance came as a pleasant surprise for fans. The characters emphasize the lack of women in magic, in addition to teasing a potential ‘Horsewomen’ spinoff with newbie June (Ariana Greenblatt).
Fleischer added, “It really just kind of calls out the sort of male-dominated magic world, but also I think it gives them power and that they have a relationship independent of the Horsemen, which no one else was expecting.”
Lizzy Caplan attends the ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ world premiere on Nov. 10, 2025 in New York City.
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In NYSM: NYD, Henley notes she originally left the group to start a family, as Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) wanted her to hang upside down in a tank of water while pregnant for an escape trick, a nod to her own reason for missing the sequel as the actress was expecting at the time.
The movie is a full family reunion for the Now You See Me coven. With three new magicians, plus the returns of Caplan and Mark Ruffalo’s Dylan (in a brief cameo), the Four Horsemen become eight by the end of the movie.