The One With Disney Moana 2 Interviews
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Host Sarah Nicole Landry sits down with the voice of Disney's Moana, American actress Auli’i Cravalho and the songwriting duo making history, Barlow and Bear from the new Moana 2 movie soundtrack.
Cravalho, who voiced Moana at 14 and is now 24, reflected on the character's growth and the importance of Moana's non-traditional princess role. Barlow and Bear, the youngest all-female Disney songwriters, shared their experience and the emotional process of creating the new soundtrack. The hosts praised the film's cultural depth, particularly its representation of Pacific Island navigation and ancestry, and highlighted the immersive educational experiences during the press junket live from Hawaii.
This episode is in partnership with Disney Studios Canada.
Watch the trailer and find out more about Moana 2:
https://movies.disney.com/moana-2
Find out where you can see it in Canadian theatres:
https://www.disneymovie.ca/moana2/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, trying her mostess, Sarah Nicole. And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital |
| 0:23.4 | space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. We are live in Hawaii. Well, when you |
| 0:31.4 | listen to this, we won't be there anymore, but we are here for the Moana 2 press junket. |
| 0:41.1 | And on today's episode, we're going to be breaking down our review of Moana 2. |
| 0:46.5 | And I have the opportunity to interview two, actually three guests, but two different interviews. |
| 0:47.4 | One with Ali I Kravallo and the other with Barlow and Bear, the songwriters on this Disney movie, |
| 0:55.5 | they actually made history with their score because they are the youngest, |
| 1:01.0 | all-female writers of music in a Disney movie ever. |
| 1:04.5 | And that's theirs to own forever. |
| 1:06.2 | And I think that's so special. |
| 1:07.7 | So we're going to lead you into two different interviews. |
| 1:10.1 | We have, let's start with our |
| 1:13.5 | interview with Moana herself, the voice of Moana. Let me introduce you to Al-Lie Krevelo. |
| 1:20.5 | Hi. Hi. This is so surreal. This is, I mean, Moana is one of those movies. I have watched |
| 1:26.6 | probably a thousand times. |
| 1:27.6 | I've got four kids, so there's a lot. And your character is so amazing. And in the first |
| 1:32.7 | movie we get this like beautiful message of her, you know, learning about her history, learning |
| 1:37.8 | about her past and then also trusting her gut to go forward to the future. |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah. What was it like for you because you have also |
| 1:46.2 | changed so much since you originally stepped into the role? Tell me a little bit about what |
| 1:50.9 | it was like coming back into Moana. It feels so wonderful to be back. It's never guaranteed that |
| 1:55.7 | we will have an opportunity to tell more of her story and get a sequel. It's such a blessing. But truthfully, |
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