Camila Cabello wasn’t looking to become an actress when a pair of glass slippers came calling.

The Grammy Award-nominated singer stars in Amazon Prime Video’s Cinderella alongside Billy Porter, who portrays her fairy godmother—or GodMuva, as Porter refers to the character—in a modern fairytale for the ages.

The film from writer and director Kay Cannon sends the message that dreamers can be anyone they want. Just look at Cabello, a Cuban American girl playing one of the most famous princesses ever written; and Porter, a queer Black male starring as her fairy godmother, changing lives while wearing the fiercest ensemble in storybook history.

“It’s really been an honor to play Cinderella, everything this film stands for, I stand for,” Cabello told Deadline. “It stands for representation and diversity, dreams and independence, and compassion. All the things we need to be talking about. This Cinderella has...