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Moana returns to the big screen this week to take us on a new adventure through Hawaii and Auli’i Cravalho returns as Moana alongside stars like the Rock and Nicole Scherzinger.
But this is more than just a movie for Cravalho – it’s a coming-of-age story and a dream come true.
Moana was her first professional role when she was just 16 years old and it has since catapulted her career.
“I really feel that we are reaching out to the future”, Cravalho said. “If our last film was also about connecting with our past, we meet Moana three years after our last film has ended. For the first time in Disney history, this is big. a Disney princess has aged. So she’s a little bit older, she’s a little bit wiser. She is taking her people in a direction that her parents could have never imagined.”
Cravalho has remained appreciative of her family’s support in her success.
“I mean the phrase that I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams, not even my ancestors, I am my parents’ wildest dreams”, she said.
