Johnson mentioned his personal daughter, 15, reminded him of the name heroine.
November 21, 2016, 9:25 AM ET
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— Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson sat down with “Just right Morning The usa” to talk about Disney’s upcoming epic animated journey movie “Moana.”
Johnson voices the nature Maui, the good ocean demigod who is helping fearless Moana as she embarks on a adventure to find what’s past the confines of her island and reserve it from a horrible curse.
What Johnson mentioned he discovered in particular related and empowering used to be having a tender woman power the tale. He advised ABC Information that he loves this new model of a feminine hero.
“There is not any love pastime. And there is no damsel in misery personality in right here,” Johnson mentioned. “She represents such a lot of 15-, 16-year-old ladies available in the market.”
The heroine, Johnson mentioned, reminds him of his personal 15-year-old daughter, “Formidable and has a in reality string standpoint. Desires to take on the sector — loving tapping into her personal identification. Striking me in my position,” the actor admitted giggling.
Regardless of Johnson’s resemblance to his animated onscreen personality, with bulging muscular tissues and tribal tattoos, his tricky external could not protect him from getting emotional.
“I’ve by no means cried constantly … thru a film greater than I’ve with this film,” Johnson mentioned. “Simply to be transparent, they’re all manly tears despite the fact that.”
And that search for his personality, right down to his form and hair, used to be in fact in keeping with Johnson’s grandfather. “He appeared like that,” Johnson mentioned. “He used to be a Samoan top leader who had top leader tattoos all over the place his frame,” and he used to be a wrestler, like “the Rock,” as neatly.
The on-screen famous person mentioned this movie challenged him to mission a personality depending only on his voice. “It used to be exercising a unique muscle and it used to be an excellent problem, he mentioned. Johnson defined there have been more than one cameras taking pictures him whilst he would say his traces, “And the way you assert them, how your facial expressions are handing over the traces. All this is infused into the animation.”
Johnson, who comes from Polynesian descent, mentioned this used to be “a chance to show off Polynesian tradition to the sector at the giant display screen in some way that it had by no means been showcased prior to.”
Numerous Johnson’s real-life studies and portions of his personal tale have been mirrored on this film. “I performed soccer, did not make it. Failed at that. There have been a large number of disasters that Maui has needed to undergo as neatly,” Johnson mentioned.
Happy with the movie, his personality and what it represents, he advised ABC his favourite line from the movie is when Maui tries to inform Moana she is a princess. “And he or she’s very adamant, ‘I am not a princess. I am the daughter of a the executive, however I am not a princess,'” he mentioned giggling. “And I say one thing like, ‘Smartly, concentrate, if you were given a get dressed and you were given a sidekick then you are a princess.’ It is very humorous. It’s the most efficient line within the film.”
“Moana” might be in theaters on Nov. 23.
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