Sophia Anne Caruso

In “The School for Good and Evil,” two best friends are whisked away from their stifling small town and dropped into a magical school where all fairy tales ...

“I hope that teenage girls are able to walk away from the film with a sense of confidence, and what being confident means, what being beautiful really means,” she said. We’re meant to believe that Sophie gets dropped – literally, from the talons of a giant bird-like creature – into the “good” school while Aggie gets dropped in the “evil” school. The movie, and the book it’s based celebrates the power of friendship. The set design for “Beetlejuice” was eye-popping, and won awards from the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk. It’s a lesson that Caruso hopes resonate with the young girls and teenagers who watch the film. “She’s obviously a really dynamic character, really multifaceted, and it’s a very exciting role,” Caruso said by phone from Los Angeles, where she spent Monday doing press for the film. “There are all sorts of different challenges with that,” she said. And I was really excited to wear prosthetics, and do a few things that I haven’t done before, which was its own challenge and something I really enjoyed doing. Already ostracized in their hometown of Gavaldon and accused of being a witch, Aggie sees herself as a realist, and the idea of learning about life in fairy tales is not for her. In “The School for Good and Evil,” two best friends are whisked away from their stifling small town and dropped into a magical school where all fairy tales begin. One girl has only ever wanted to be a fairy tale princess, and she gets dropped in the School for Evil. This is the premise of the best-selling book series from author Soman Chainani, aimed at readers ages 8 to 12.