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Auli'i Cravalho has officially revealed whether she volition beryllium reprising her starring relation successful Disney's live-action remake of Moana.
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Auli'i Cravalho has officially revealed however acold she'll spell successful the live-action Moana remake.
The animated film's starring lady has shared with fans that contempt acting arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the film, she volition not beryllium reprising her starring role.
"When I was formed arsenic Moana astatine 14, it wonderfully changed my beingness and started my career," the 22-year-old shared successful a video posted to her Instagram May 19. "In this live-action retelling, I volition not beryllium reprising the role."
"I judge that it is perfectly captious that casting accurately represents the characters and stories we privation to tell," she continued, "So, arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the film, I cannot hold to assistance find the adjacent histrion to represent Moana's courageous spirit, undeniable wit, and affectional strength."
Auli'i did stock immoderate words to whoever takes connected the role, and her hopes for the film's impact, "I americium genuinely honored to walk this baton to the adjacent young pistillate of Pacific-Island descent. To grant our unthinkable Pacific peoples, cultures, and communities that assistance animate her story. And I look guardant to each the beauteous pacific representation to come."
News of the remake was first shared by Disney successful April and astatine the time Auli'i expressed her excitement about the remake, noting that it has been "whispered astir for years!".
"Moana has had specified a profound interaction connected however we deliberation of Disney princesses," she wrote on Instagram April 3. "Moana's spot and perseverance are inspiring—to audiences astir the world, to maine and to everyone who helped bring her to life. I'm looking guardant to sharing her communicative successful a full caller way."
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Although Auli'i volition not be reprising her role, 1 archetypal formed subordinate has already confirmed his information successful the remake. In summation to serving alongside the Crush histrion arsenic a shaper connected the film, Dwayne Johnson will beryllium hitting screens arsenic the demigod Maui erstwhile again.
This relation is particularly important for Dwayne, arsenic the 2016 film's mentation of the quality was inspired by his precocious grandfather Peter Maivia.
"This communicative is my culture, and this communicative is emblematic of our people's grace, mana and warrior strength," the histrion wrote on Instagram April 3. "I deterioration our civilization proudly connected my tegument and successful my soul, and this erstwhile successful a beingness accidental to reunite with MAUI, inspired by the tone of my precocious grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia, is 1 that runs precise heavy for me."
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