All of the actors, at least in my experience, were isolated and we were recording by ourselves. KELLY MARIE TRAN: Honestly, I feel like all the credit has to go to the story team, the editing team, and all of the incredible teams behind the movie. How did you manage to pull off the comradery of this story, when you couldn’t be together? So, we lost that hour, but I learned my lesson. That’s what happens when you leave the recording and the technical stuff to the actors. At the end of the hour, we were supposed to upload our packets to Team Disney, and as I was uploading my packet, I realized that I had recorded none of that past hour. We had put in a good hour and we did some great stuff. In one of my very first sessions from home, most of his dialogue, where he’s talking about Kumandra and establishing a relationship with Raya, went missing. Although, I will have to say that it wasn’t without hiccups. So, to be able to walk downstairs in my t-shirt and shorts was pretty great. Living in Hawaii, any time I travel to go shoot something, it’s at least five hours, eleven by plane.

It was amazing, actually being able to record from home.

It’s nice when you can really take a lot of pride in the person that you’re playing. What was that like to do?ĭANIEL DAE KIM: It was really great, actually. Question: Because of COVID, you made this movie from home, which is unbelievable for a Disney production of this quality and this magnitude.

That same evil force sends Raya on an epic journey five hundred years later, with the hope of finding the last dragon and restoring all of the life that had been lost.ĭuring a virtual press conference to discuss all things Raya and the Last Dragon, co-stars Kelly Marie Tran (“Raya”), Awkwafina (“Sisu”), Daniel Dae Kim (“Benja”), Gemma Chan (“Namaari”), and Sandra Oh (“Virana”) talked about making this movie from home during a pandemic, pulling off the comradery of the story when they couldn’t be together, why audiences can identify with these characters, the father-daughter dynamic between Raya and Benja, finding Sisu, and the importance of this film at a time when there has been a rise in attacks against Asian Americans. Image via Walt Disney Studios Motion Picturesĭirected by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada and from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Raya and the Last Dragon travels into a world where everything once lived in harmony before an evil force fractured and divided humanity.

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