Piper Curda Talks Hoppers, Disney Channel's "I Didn't Do It," and Asexuality

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Piper Curda joins us on the couch to discuss her biggest role yet: the voice of Mabel Tanaka, the starring character in Pixar’s new film ‘Hoppers.’ We’ll let her explain the plot but her character is an animal loving Japanese-American college student whose mind is transferred into a robotic beaver. Obviously there was a lot of beaver talk. But 28-year-old Curda has a rich and storied history with Disney, starting off as a kid acting in ‘A.N.T. Farm’ and ‘I Did’n’t Do It,’ so Disney lore is definitely a topic of conversation.

We discuss how she got into acting, her upbringing amongst five other siblings — all of whom wound up in entertainment, Glory, Riley Major, and Saylor — and who were raised for a time on a military base (her dad grew up on the streets of Korea and went on to be the first Korean-American general in the army).

We also go deep on the realities of acting, how during the pandemic and followed by the strike she wound up working a nine-to-five. She’s super honest about her experiences with depression and openly discusses asexuality. Piper is funny, and refreshingly frank. Don’t miss!

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0:00.0	Hey, beautiful human real quick.
0:06.9	I got to say a big thank you to our presenting sponsor.
0:10.2	The people who are making this conversation possible, Alexa Plus.
0:13.2	I use Alexa Plus every single day.
0:15.7	Have you tried this AI that Amazon just dropped?
0:18.4	It's like you're talking to a person, a person who actually understands you, a person who will get you exactly what you're looking for. Plus, it's an experience that over time becomes tailored to you and to who you are. And it's free if you got prime. Try it out. When you got time, learn more at Amazon.com slash Alexa plus. Hi beautiful even.
0:37.9	I'm Zach.
0:38.4	That's in.
0:39.0	And we welcome to the studio, Piper Curta.
0:41.7	There you go.
0:42.7	Yeah.
0:43.9	That's me.
0:46.1	Sorry.
0:46.8	No, but it is like, it's so funny.
0:50.5	And this morning I was like search, like, and even last night, I was searching you on TikTok and it was always auto correcting me. And I was wondering why I was auto correcting me. And it's because I read. Yeah, it's totally wrong. I literally dyslexically read your name in a way that I thought was right one time. Yeah. And then I think it's right forever. Yeah. That's okay. That's all right.
1:12.5	Thanks for the lack of judgment. It means a lot. Thank you. Thank you. I'm just going to call you Zach Singh.
1:16.9	I'm totally okay with it. And that's going to be fine. Put us on a level playing field. Please.
1:21.7	Easy. God, you are very fascinating. And because your life is both so abnormal and also normal.
1:29.7	Yeah.
1:30.2	At the same.
1:30.8	Is that fair to say?
1:31.8	Super fair.
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