Sandra Bullock has a confession buried inside her new sequel, and it has nothing to do with witchcraft.

The 62-year-old actress sat down with Jennifer Aniston for a conversation published by Interview magazine ahead of Practical Magic 2's release this Friday, September 10, and used the moment to explain what the film really means to her. Bullock called it "a love letter of my sorrys" to her 12-year-old daughter, Laila.

"If I failed, if I don't know how to say the right thing, I apologize," she said. "I just want to do right by her, to help her be as brave as she already is, and that scares the sā€“t out of me. I'm a fearful person. She is not. She thinks nothing can happen to her because she's already survived."

That line does a lot of work. Bullock drew a direct connection between Laila and Kylie, the character she plays in the franchise, who arrives in the sequel played by Joey King. King steps into a role originated by Evan Rachel Wood in the first film, a recasting that's been one of the bigger talking points around this sequel since it was announced.

So the movie isn't just a nostalgia play for people who grew up on the 1998 original. Bullock is framing it, at least in this interview, as something closer to a message in a bottle for her own kid. That's a heavier admission than the usual press-tour talk about legacy and sisterhood and magic being real if you believe hard enough.

It also isn't the first time this month Bullock has brought Laila into the conversation around this film. She'd already shared, in an earlier interview, that her daughter had given her some unexpected advice on dating. Read together, the two moments suggest Bullock has been unusually candid this cycle about how much of her real life is bleeding into the promotion of a sequel that's been decades in the making.

Whether audiences read any of that into the actual film is a different question. Practical Magic 2 has already started collecting reviews ahead of its Friday opening, and how critics respond to King stepping into Wood's old role will likely shape a chunk of that coverage.

What's clear from Bullock's own words is that this one carries more weight for her than a standard sequel would. Whether it lands the same way for a 12-year-old watching it someday is the part only time will answer.