'Moana 2’s' Auli’i Cravalho Tells Us Why She’s Happy To Have A New Actress As The Live-Action Moana (And The Rock As A Role Model)

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As Moana 2 continues to break big at the box office during the holiday season, the Disney Princess is set to be central to another one of the upcoming Disney movies when the live-action Moana hits theaters in 2026. When CinemaBlend spoke to Moana voice actress Auli’i Cravalho about passing the torch to another person, she shared her excitement over the next Moana.  In the new Moana movie, Auli’i Cravalho spoke with us about the sequel being the “first time in Disney history” a Disney Princess is allowed to age, and she found it refreshing. But when it comes to going back and telling the story of a 16-year-old Moana sailing the seas with Maui, the actress is looking forward to seeing the new iteration.

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00:00Your relationship with The Rock over the years, how has that kind of changed throughout this

00:05specifically doing the voiceover for this time around? I feel really lucky because I am now an

00:11executive producer on the live action Moana, which means that I have Duane on a text chain

00:17and we send voice notes back and forth. I see him on Zooms and on emails and things and it's really

00:22nice to have met him at 14 and thought of him as a role model certainly then. And now I get to look

00:31at him as also a colleague, someone who shares insight on the business, things that I really

00:36don't know about. I know about being talent and producing is a very different muscle, a very

00:42different hat to put on, but I'm very happy to be learning as well. And speaking of the live action,

00:46I think it's lovely that you're a producer on it. And, you know, kind of connecting it with this

00:52movie on Moana having a sister in Samia. I was wondering how kind of getting to share that role

00:57now with the new actress, how that feels and how you get to maybe get to share, what are you're most

01:02excited to share with her? I feel like the Moana universe or the Moanaverse is simply expanding

01:10tenfold. So we have our original film, we have our sequel, and then yes, we have our live action.

01:15And I love that I'm able to pass the baton on to Catherine Lagaya. She's so beautiful.

01:22I feel like she really represents Moana in a fantastic way. I also, I'm 24 now, and I'm glad

01:29to see someone young, someone hungry, someone green to the industry taking those shoes, because I can

01:35count on one hand the amount of young Pacific Island women I see in this industry, and I'm glad

01:40to have a friend. I'm really glad it's lonely out of here.

01:42I'm totally out of here.

01:43I'm totally out of here.

01:44I'm totally out of here.

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