Moana 2 director Dana Ledoux Miller told that actually, this is being in a space with Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson
“Auli’i is just funny in the booth.”
Moana 2 is sailing smoothly on the box office! The film breaks audience records as they visit the theater to recreate the next chapter in Moana’s saga.
How wonderful that our beloved characters return! From Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of Moana, to Dwayne Johnson, the voice of Maui, the cast of the original film is back to reprise their legendary characters in the sequel.
Nothing could get better than that: our cherished characters are coming back! From Auli’i Cravalho (the voice of Moana) to Dwayne Johnson (the voice of Maui), the original film’s cast is back to revive their legendary characters in the follow-up.
Now in the current early week, director Dana Ledoux Miller has been talking to BuzzFeed on her best experiences with the cast, calling Auli’i and Dwayne “really special.”
I’m sure it would be tough for someone to comprehend how returning to a character you’ve portrayed over eight years would feel,” she said.
.. “But I was just really blown away by both of them, how they kept rediscovering these characters as well as delving into new aspects of them.”
Auli’i is just hilariously good in the booth – it’s incredibly athletic and so spot-on. The very first day of my session with her, we were talking out front, and then she walks in, and you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s Moana!’ Just so awesome and incredible.”
That was when Dana said her favorite part about Maui happens when the film nears the end, and the character loses all his powers and tattoos. “Vulnerable for the first time ever. He’s mourning a loss there. [Writer] Jared Bush and I talked about what it means to have that strength and be a person who, theoretically, needs no one, yet suddenly finds himself brought to his knees, exposed in a way he has never felt before, having to ask for help in a whole new way. Larger than Life to Live?
It was great to discuss that with Dwayne, who is larger than life in many areas and doesn’t often get the opportunity to delve into an emotional perspective as an actor.”
She was so thrilled about working with Jemaine Clement, whom you may recall as the voice of Tamatoa from the first film. “‘Jemaine came to do some Tamatoa work for this session. I’m a huge Flight of the Conchords fan. Eagle vs. Shark is one of my top movies by him; it’s some of his earliest work and it’s really weird; and I thought, ‘That’s the sort of movie I’m going to make! ”. I’m not funny like him so I haven’t made a movie like that. But my heart was really happy, I could have listened to that guy improvise for hours. It was amazing.”
you should not tell him that,” Dana said, who had kept Jemaine a little longer “just to really let him shine for our own benefit,” even if he appears during the end of credits scene.
