00:00I love Lilo's freedom and fierceness, but what did you like most about playing this character?
00:07This character means a lot to me and my Hawaiian culture too,
00:13but most importantly that she's not perfect, but she's perfect in other different ways
00:20and that she tried to fit in and stuff, but now she does, now that an alien crashed on Earth
00:31and he stitched their family back together.
00:34There are many responsibilities and sacrifices that come along with being the oldest.
00:39In what ways, do you have siblings?
00:41I do, yeah. I have a younger sister and I have two olders.
00:45Nice, nice, nice. Now, in what ways did playing Nani stretch you?
00:50Because it was so believable. I love watching you all together.
00:53Thank you.
00:54How she catch you.
00:55I mean, well, first and foremost, I mean, working with Maya was a dream.
00:59I mean, you don't see every day a six-year-old who's done literally like nothing beforehand.
01:07This was her first movie and she's killing it and she was a blast to work with.
01:12And I think the bond that we created made everything just blissful and fun and real.
01:20Like everything that you saw on screen was very real.
01:23And I think a lot of the things that I really related to up front with Nani was,
01:29not only was I a huge OG fan, but I also just understood the older sister aspect of everything.
01:39And that was kind of her, at her core, she lives for her family.
01:44And she lost her parents and she's trying to take care of her younger sister
01:48and doing everything in her power to make sure that they're not pulled apart.
01:51And it's something that is very real these days.
01:55And I think that as an 18-year-old to go through that is incredibly stressful.
02:01And I think that that was the stretch, I think, in the way of I, luckily enough,
02:05have never gone through something so traumatic.
02:08But I also know what it's like to sacrifice or want to sacrifice everything for my sister
02:14and protect her to know until the world's end.
02:17And also kind of so much so that you do sacrifice your own wants and needs.
02:23And Nani does that.
02:26And at the very end, it's incredibly wonderful to see her younger sister give that back to her
02:31and allow her that freedom and that blessing to go and live her life now
02:38and tell her that it's okay, which is, oh, that's a really hard thing to do
02:43and a very selfless thing to accept as well.
02:48I think as far as the familial dynamic, it really allowed me to kind of see.
02:54I didn't know what it was like to have social work or going through all of that stuff.
02:59I think it allowed me to kind of see a wider scope of what my parents sacrificed for me.
03:04And I think every single day we practiced that because we were filming that
03:10and we had to take that into account for everything that we did.
03:13And at Nani's core especially, that was everything that she was fighting for.
03:18And the Hawaii community is a strong, strong set of foundation for that.
03:24And we were surrounded by our own family while we were shooting.
03:28We created one, too, while we were filming, which was a blessing
03:32and doesn't always happen every day.
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