As for Mary Poppins Returns, it’s set 20 years after the original and focuses on the adult Banks’ children, Michael, played by Ben Whishaw, and Jane. played by Emily Mortimer.
Van Dyke will appear in Mary Poppins Returns – the upcoming sequel that stars Golden Globe Award winner Emily Blunt in the title role first-made famous by Academy Award winner, Julie Andrews.
“I appreciate this opportunity to apologize to the members of BAFTA for inflicting on them the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema.”
I mean, it was the worst Cockney accent ever done.