Moana’s role on her island now also includes being a big sister.
Moana is officially a wayfinder, but she’s also now a big sister.
“Simea is Moana’s mini,” says Lambert-Tsuda, introducing her character toEntertainment Weekly.
Simea and Moana in ‘Moana 2’.Disney
It’s beautiful and it’s difficult."
But so did Moana herself.
“Simea is going to be just as scrappy and fiery as Moana was when she was little.
Moana and Simea in ‘Moana 2’.Disney
Lambert-Tsuda also found that same sense of awe and love in Simea while voicing her.
“And it’s Moana, the coolest big sis ever!
I wish I could meet her in real life!”
“I grew into my teeth at a very late age.
My daughter has the same thing, and it’s something that I find very charming and endearing.
We are celebrating her wonderful buck teeth, which are the cutest kind of part of her.”
“But kids are chaos when they’re running.
They’re not so much running, but stopping themselves from falling over at a very high speed.
She’s almost tripping over her feet.
That makes her very specifically feel of that age.”
“We have that with Simea as well.
And I love her for that.”
“She’s a kindred spirit to Moana,” Derrick says.
So, she still gives her that drive.”
“Simea becomes such an emotional fulcrum of the story,” he adds.
“She needs to carry with her a lot of gravity for Moana.
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“You get this really interesting alchemy of those two emotions coming out,” Webb continues.
“They don’t know how to process.
There’s no games they play.
It’s all right there.”
