When the original Descendants movie came out in 2015, kids and grown-ups alike were blown away by the vibrant visuals, amazing choreography, and mesmerizing music.

The movie follows the children of classic Disney villains and their lives on the Isle of the Lost, where the villains have been banished by Queen Belle and King Adam (aka the Beast), the rulers of the peaceful Auradon.

That is, until Prince Ben invites some villain kids to attend his school.

Even though the key demographic that Disney was marketing to was children, the key message of the story— that nobody is inherently good or bad and that it’s our own choices that count— has made the series popular with older audiences as well.

Now that Descendants 3 has been announced for 2019, it’s time to brush up on some Descendants trivia before the third instalment comes to the small screen.

The list includes some fun facts from the first two movies, but not any of the confirmed info for Descendants 3, so if you want to remain 100% spoiler free in anticipation to the premiere, you’re in totally safe hands. If you haven’t seen the second movie, though, definitely go take a look before venturing farther.

Here are the 20 Crazy Facts Only True Fans Know About Descendants.

20. Descendants Wasn't Originally A Musical

Descendants has some of the catchiest bops in Disney history, so it might come as a surprise that it wasn’t originally conceived as a musical.

In fact, it was originally an action, adventure, and comedy rolled into one.

However, with industry legend Kenny Ortega tied to the project, the team decided it was kinda silly not to make it a musical. After all, Ortega rose to fame with his work on cinematic monuments like Newsies, Dirty Dancing and High School Musical.

On top of that, he’s also known for his collaborations with pop culture icons such as Cher, Michael Jackson, and Gloria freaking Estefan. Even if you don’t recognize his name, you are more than likely to recognize his choreography.

So it seemed like a pretty big waste not to do a movie musical with this choreography king at the helm.

It's also a good thing that they changed it— the openings to both movies are beyond catchy and fun. “Rotten to the Core”? “Ways to Be Wicked”? Sure, the villain kids decide to be good at the end of the first movie, but they sure make the villain aesthetic look good.

Plus, they had a soulful duet between two girls, highlighting female friendship instead of pitting two girls against each other over a boy.

19. Cameron Boyce Had Multiple Body Doubles

The youngest of the cast, Cameron Boyce, was born in 1999 and was only fifteen years old when they started principal photography on the first Descendants in 2014.

Because he was a minor, he was legally obligated to leave set early due to labor laws.

Having one of the four main actors absent means that the production team needed to hire a body double to fill in for him so they could finish filming on time.

Body doubles obviously aren’t uncommon in the film industry-- they allow the production team to utilize lead actors’ time more efficiently by shooting later on in the process, as well as protect their safety if they’re not trained as stunt performers.

However, it turns out the team had to hire way more than one stunt double.

Boyce has revealed that they ended up having to hire around five body doubles for him. Not only did he have a stunt double, but he also had a dance double and not one, but two picture doubles.

If you think about it, it’s a pretty amazing feat to find so many people who could reasonably as Boyce. Also, although none of their faces are shown on screen, apparently they all had Boyce’s trademark freckles.

18. Costume Designer Kara Saun Was On Project Runway

German-born designer Kara Saun was the first runner-up on the first season of the popular fashion design reality show, Project Runway.

She came second after Jay McCarroll, but she has gone on to design outfits for some pretty big names, including Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, and Project Runway host Heidi Klum.

She started out in the fashion industry based in New York City, but she’s also branched out into costume design as well.

Her long list of impressive credits includes America’s Best Dance Crew, several Comedy Central Roasts, and, of course, Descendants and Descendants 2.

In an interview, Saun revealed that two pages into the script, she knew that she just had to work on Descendants, emphasizing how alluring it was to have the opportunity to work with such iconic Disney villains and heroes like Maleficent and Cruella de Vil.

In her designs for the villain kids, she draws heavy inspiration from their parents. For example, she incorporates green and dragon designs for Mal, since Maleficent turns into a dragon who breaths green fire in Sleeping Beauty.

With her success in both the fashion industry and the entertainment industry, Saun has become a role model for people of all ages.

17. Descendants Was Sofia Carson's First Movie

Cameron Boyce and Dove Cameron were both already part of the Disney Channel when they were cast.

Booboo Stewart was part of the Twilight franchise. Sofia Carson, however, was a virtual newcomer who burst into the spotlight when she landed the role of Evie in Descendants, her first movie ever-- and boy, what an amazing first project.

She got to share the screen with Broadway legend Kristin Chenoweth of Wicked fame.

She learned choreography and received direction from Kenny Ortega, who was at the helm of the High School Musical series, and had choreographing movies like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Dirty Dancing, working with music giants like Cher and Michael Jackson.

To say Descendants changed her life is truly an understatement. One year after the release of Descendants, she performed at the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards— and so did Ariana Grande and Gwen Stefani, who are both veritable icons.

Also, the thing is that even among all these established names, Carson definitely holds her own in this behemoth of a movie, bringing life to Evie’s arc.

To top it all off, she’s using her newly found fame for good: she doesn’t shy away from her Colombian roots, inspiring a new generation of little girls just like her.

16. Sofia Carson Needed 2.5 Hours To Get Into Character

Everyone in the movies is super glammed up, with character designs that reflect the larger-than-life setting of both Auradon and the Isle of the Lost.

The female characters are especially made up, so much so that it took Sofia Carson two and a half hours to prep for the role each day.

On top of that, a huge part of her character, Evie, is her fashion sense, so her costumes in both of the movies so far have been absolutely mind-blowing and intricately detailed.

Carson’s various bright blue wig would take an hour to put on properly.

With all the intense hair-whipping in Kenny Ortega’s choreography, it would have been crucial to not only make sure that the wigs looked good, but also ensure that they stayed on firmly.

Having to reset a massive musical number with countless extras and other moving parts because of a rogue wig flying off of someone’s head creates a huge delay.

Despite how long the whole wig, makeup, and costume process took, Carson loved seeing herself transform into Evie because of her fascination with makeup.

Plus, she used the time to relax, go over her scenes, and otherwise prepare for the day ahead-- so it was not altogether a bad way to spend time.

15. Cameron Boyce Actually Bleached His Hair

While Dove Cameron and Sofia Carson took forever to put on those wildly vibrant colored wigs, Cameron Boyce actually bleached his natural dark brown hair a shade of platinum blonde in order to play the troublemaker Carlos, the dog-fearing son of Cruella de Vil.

Even though he didn’t have to sit in a makeup chair for hours before every shoot, it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for him either. He says that the bleaching process took six hours in a salon chair, and surely the upkeep had to be a major pain in the butt too, since platinum blonde is a notoriously difficult hair color to maintain if you’re not born with it.

On top of that, intense bleaching also does a number on your hair and scalp health, so that’s some serious dedication right there.

For the sequel, however, it looks like Boyce ended up using a wig after all, keeping his naturally dark brown hair gelled back under a wig cap.

For “Ways to be Wicked”, he reveals that they used the same fluffy wig used in Descendants 2, but they slicked the hair back with hair gel in order to achieve a more Descendants 1 kind of look.

14. Over 1,500 Costumes Were Made For Descendants 2

After the first Descendants movie, costume designer Kara Saun immediately decided that if there was to be a sequel, she was going to push the boundaries way further-- and she did,

Since the franchise is set in an alternate fairy tale universe, all the characters’ outfits are pretty spectacular, from Uma’s badass pirate queen look (part of what Saun has dubbed ‘Scallywag Swag’) to Evie’s various sartorial sensations.

However, with such a large cast and several grand, sprawling scenes with numerous extras, the wardrobe crew ended up getting more than 1500 costumes custom made, which were often created from scratch and by hand. Oh, and a lot of the stuff is detachable to ensure maximum functionality, accommodating everything from sharp swashbuckling to dizzying dances.

One dress in particular took more than 100 yards of fabric to make— the Statue of Liberty stands at 101.7 yards and Big Ben is around 105 yards.

While there doesn’t seem to be official confirmation of which exact dress took that much fabric, but we do know that it’s one of Mal’s dresses, which are part of a whole collection that Kara has named ‘The Princess Punk Collection."

Given how many gorgeous layers are in Mal’s cotillion dress, we’re willing to bet that one’s the 100-yard dress, or at least close to it.

13. The Actresses In Descendants 2 Have The Same Shoe Size

It’s particularly apt that Sofia Carson was the one to reveal that the actresses of Descendants 2 wear the same shoe size— she plays savvy fashion designer Evie in the movie series.

There were around 1,500 costume pieces, but maybe things were a little easier on the wardrobe crew to have all the main actresses wearing same sized shoes.

Sure, it’s not like they would have been actually wearing one another’s costume shoes during filming, but if you’ve never worked on a production, a costume piece originally intended for one character can end up working better for someone else.

Although they obviously weren’t swapping costume shoes in every other scene, Carson says that they borrowed one another’s shoes.

It’s clear that the cast of Descendants have gotten close over the years, and surely being able to have a wider selection of shoes at their disposal has only added to their relationships. After all, who doesn’t like a good old dress-up session with their closest friends, trying on one another’s clothing?

Since Evie’s ion in life is fashion design, there’s little doubt that it’ll be explored in Descendants 3, but here’s hoping that the characters also get to bond over borrowing clothes, or even engaging in a little subterfuge pretending to be one another.

12. Sofia Carson Didn't Know Descendants Was A Musical

Apparently, the change to make Descendants a musical movie happened quite late in the game. Sofia Carson auditioned under the impression that it was a non-musical movie (save for one song called “Bad to the Bone”, the precursor to “Rotten to the Core”).

Infact, she didn’t even know it had been updated to an actual, full-on musical until her agent called her two weeks before principal photography began.

It’s a good thing that she grew up singing and dancing. She wasn’t that thrown off by the last-minute news, though, saying that she was actually excited for the chance to sing and dance as well as act.

Weirdly enough, Booboo Stewart implied in the same interview that he knew at least a month in advance, because he started taking singing and dancing lessons a month prior to shooting as a refresher in order to refine his performance skills.

The wonky timeline brings into question how they managed to squeeze in time for recording sessions and rehearsals for all the big dance numbers, especially since Carson looks completely in her element through the entire movie.

However, hey, the end result looks great, even if Carson was thrown into such a large musical production at the last minute, so we’re not complaining.

11. Booboo Stewart Auditioned For Prince Ben

Mitchell Hope is great as the endearingly awkward yet perfectly charming Prince Ben, heir to the throne of Auradon and son of Queen Belle and King Adam. However, did you know that Booboo Stewart initially went in to read for the role as well?

It’s not unheard of for actors to get called in for a certain role and then get called back for an entirely different character.

Auditioning in person definitely brings out a side to actors that casting directors don’t get to see via self-tape or any other virtual casting method, so in-person vibes can totally change the production team’s minds.

However, it does make us wonder what Descendants would look like had Stewart been cast as the primary love interest instead.

Perhaps he’d get his hair pulled back into a royal bun, instead of flowing freely as he wreaks havoc on the Isle of the Lost as Jafar’s son, Jay.

However, alas, the creative team didn’t want a dancer for the role of Ben in order to bring out a more vulnerable element to the character. Stewart does get to tap into a gentler side as Jay’s character arc progresses, though.

Besides, we would’ve missed out on Mitchell boogieing in “Did I Mention”.