Moana 2 junket - Vídeo Dailymotion

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21/3/2025

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00:00Me encuentro con David G. Derrick y con Jason Hunt, directores de Moana 2, que ya la vamos

00:11a tener en formatos digitales.

00:13David, Jason, nice to meet you.

00:17Pleasure.

00:18Nice to meet you.

00:19This is your first feature film as directors.

00:23You have been working a lot in animation, but how was this jump to go to a feature film

00:29and Moana?

00:30It's a very precious name in Disney.

00:35We both worked on the first film as story artists and both played very big roles in

00:40that film.

00:43For me, I think I can say for us, it was a passion and a wonderful opportunity to continue

00:49Moana's story.

00:51I was happy to do this with Jason and then ultimately to invite Dana also onto the directing

00:57committee.

00:58It was an incredible gift to work with the characters of Moana.

01:03We loved them so much.

01:05We knew there was more stories to be told with them.

01:07We really started from a love of the world and of what everything that Moana represents.

01:12I love the character of Maui.

01:15We got handed an incredible gift and we just worked really hard to make it as good as it

01:19could possibly be.

01:21Moana!

01:22Little Sis!

01:23Big Sis!

01:24You were gone forever.

01:25How is this dynamic when you are working in the animation department, you are helping

01:35another director, the producers, and I think also the cast, and suddenly you are the one

01:42who calls the shots?

01:44Because I think that there are different switches, right?

01:47Yeah.

01:48I think it kind of does always come back to the story though, honestly.

01:52We set out to tell a continuing story of Moana.

01:54We wanted to show that she never stops choosing who she is.

02:00All of the answers and all of whether the decisions are made are really coming from

02:04what the story is telling us it needs to be.

02:07As we developed it, that's where the answers are.

02:10It's not necessarily an opinion thing.

02:12It's actually what the characters are going through and what the emotions we're trying

02:16to convey.

02:18Those answers come from that.

02:19That's where the storytelling really helps.

02:21Yeah.

02:22And if there are opinions, that's something that Jason and I and Dana work out before

02:26we would go out to those departments because it was very important for us all to be of

02:30one mind.

02:31We had over 550 people working on this and we did have to divide up and we had to know

02:37that we were all working towards the exact same goal.

02:40And so knowing what the story needed to be, knowing what our characters needed was always

02:46the goal.

02:47It's not the same as one director, two directors, three directors.

02:57I think that was to the benefit of the film.

03:00What you just exactly were describing is that we all understood what you were trying to

03:04do.

03:05We leaned on each other.

03:06We had a lot of discussions.

03:08We craft everything in the story room from the get go, which is partly from the script

03:13and the storyboarding phase and really the understanding of the characters.

03:17But I think the idea that there's three of us really did genuinely help.

03:21It's a massive project.

03:22We have how many people?

03:24Over 550 people working on this film.

03:27So because it's a collaborative art form, especially in animation at Disney Animation,

03:31I'm so used to that dynamic of being a collaboration and taking into account other people's opinions

03:37because guess what?

03:38They give you great ideas and the best idea wins.

03:41For me, it was the benefits as opposed to something that we're always fighting over

03:45something.

03:46Of course, we had disagreements and that's why we have an iterative process to figure

03:50it out together.

03:51I'd say we do definitely have our strengths, like Jason was always pushing for joy, always

03:56pushing those powerful musical moments and then the Kakamora, for me, there were deep

04:06spiritual moments that were very important to me.

04:09The whale shark, the ancestors at the end and the character of Simea and then Dana also,

04:16she brought her own creative point of view and also her own cultural connection as well

04:22to the story.

04:23It'll be harder than anything we've faced before.

04:26Well, now I kind of miss the lava monster.

04:30You might want to hold on.

04:32Moana is like a staple in Disney and you have to take this bottom and take it to a

04:39second movie.

04:41What was your biggest challenge?

04:42The story, I mean, you're sort of, it's so hard to say one particular challenge.

04:46I think the continuing story of Moana and what felt right was really important for us

04:52to ride the line of enjoying it the way you did the first film, but bringing it to a new

04:57place.

04:58It took a long time, but once we really understood the idea that the first film was about Moana

05:02connecting to her past and this is about her creating a better future for her people, which

05:07is why Simea is in the film, why she has a crew, so many decisions were made from that.

05:13So I think it's really finding and uncovering the story idea that really helps us push Moana

05:20forward into places she's never gone before.

05:23But it's hard.

05:24But the wonderful thing, we knew that because we were telling a story inspired by the actual

05:30navigators and the people of the Pacific Ocean that created the largest cultural footprint,

05:35the entire Pacific Ocean before Western expansion, that there were more places to go and there

05:41were more stories to tell.

05:43And so for us, you know, we really felt like we had just dipped our toe into the world

05:47of Moana and we're so excited to expand it.

05:54There's something in the first one that you got like, OK, if by any chance we make another

06:04movie, a second movie, we want to tackle this specific theme or this specific technique

06:13in terms of animation.

06:14Well, story-wise, yes.

06:16You know, like very early on, it was important to me, you know, part of my heritage comes

06:21from Samoa, but the Great Migrations came as a collaboration between Fiji, Tonga and

06:28the other islands so that they could go further to find all the other islands out there.

06:33And so it was important to me that our main goal was for Moana to find other people and

06:39to see the diversity of those islands and the commonality.

06:43Yeah.

06:44And I will say like from an animation and technology standpoint and pushing the medium

06:50forward, the work that our team did on the storm, which is such an incredibly difficult

06:55challenge.

06:56It's like it's the bucket list of all the things that's difficult to do in animation

06:59from characters like getting wet, going into water, crazy storm effects, multiple characters

07:07of that.

07:08Our team really came together and found ways to actually create those images.

07:11And I always say this, it looks and feels so much better and more visceral than I ever

07:17imagined we were going to be able to create.

07:19So when your team is creating things that are blowing you away in the moment as we're

07:24creating it, it's an incredible gift.

07:27So I think from an animation standpoint, that was a huge part of it.

07:30But again, it always does come back down to the characters and the story.

07:33And I connect so much with the moments that they're going through and how they feel about

07:37things and what Dave was saying that the ultimate goal of creating this community and this brighter

07:43future is really important.

07:45I will say, building off of the first film, getting to work with people like Eric Goldberg

07:52and see the collaboration between 2D animation and 3D animation.

07:57For us, I think that was one of our favorite moments, just to turn and see Eric Goldberg

08:02sitting next to you.

08:03Yeah, he's a legend.

08:04Yeah, an absolute legend.

08:10You need to watch Moana in your home.

08:12You can watch it over and over again to see all the tiny details and all the love that

08:16these artists and actors put into this film.

08:19Yeah, on Disney Plus, Wednesday, March 12th.

08:22And you know, it's available digital right now.

08:24And you know, enjoy it.

08:26Watch it over and over again.

08:27Listen to the songs.

08:28Sing the songs.

08:29That's what we've been doing for years.

08:30So I can't wait for even more people to watch this film.

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