Things We Saw Today: Auli’i Cravalho Was Almost Too Busy with Honors Biology to Audition for Moana
Collider recently shared a post-Oscars interview with Moana star Auli’i Cravalho, during which she consistently confirmed her status as a real-life Disney princess. As part of the interview, Cravalho described her audition process for Moana–and revealed that she initially didn’t try out, because she was too busy with science! “I was a freshman,” she said, “I was in honors biology, and I had no time for anything else but microbes.” However, after the casting director for Disney saw Cravalho in an unrelated group audition for a nonprofit, she reached out and asked her to audition. “I’m just thanking my lucky stars I said yes,” said Cravalho.
In the interview, Cravalho also talked about the importance of Polynesian representation, what it was like collaborating with The Rock and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and her next project: a pilot called Drama High at NBC.
- Ice Cube is reportedly one of the top choices to voice Miles Morales’ father, Jefferson Davis, in the animated Spider-Man film. (via /Film)
- The island from Kong: Skull Island is now on Google maps. I’m something of a sucker, but I love screwing around with weird marketing gimmicks like this. There’s also an accompanying website, discoverskullisland.com, but I can’t ask Google to calculate directions from a website to Mordor, now can I? (via Hollywood Reporter)
- The Nintendo Switch is out, and the public responses have begun. Nintendo has confirmed that the system’s save files cannot be backed up, there’s speculation about how many drop tests it can survive, and people seem relatively pumped about Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- Space.com has a great interview with Maia Weinstock, the deputy editor of MIT News, who successfully proposed the Women in NASA Lego set on Lego Ideas. The set includes computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, mathematician Katherine Johnson (one of the heroes of Hidden Figures), astronaut Sally Ride, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and astronaut Mae Jemison.
(Image via screengrab from Collider’s interview)
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