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Dwayne Johnson exclusively told E! News that helium can't hold for young girls and women to spot Moana 2, arsenic helium believes the movie encourages them to bash immoderate it is they privation to do.
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Dwayne Johnson is excited to spot however far Moana 2 can go.
And the Black Adam star knows the upcoming sequel to the 2016 animated Disney film will go far, particularly due to the fact that it speaks truthful straight to young women and girls.
"I deliberation that the main happening about Moana is this thought of pistillate empowerment," Dwayne told E! News at the New York City premiere of his movie Red One Nov. 11, "and this thought that we ever say, ‘What's it similar being connected the reef and looking beyond the reef?'"
And the erstwhile WWE wrestler believes the connection is universal, "even if you're not portion of Polynesian culture."
"It's this thought that what radical similar to do—especially to young girls—is benignant of constrain them," helium continued, "and pretzel them into, ‘You tin lone beryllium truthful much.' But in Moana 2, you tin really beryllium thing you want." (For much from Dwayne, tune into E! News tonight, Nov. 12, astatine 11 p.m.)
Plus the accidental to dependable the quality of Maui again was 1 the 52-year-old couldn't walk up. After all, he loves however Maui "does his champion to empower Moana to look beyond the reef."
He added of the film's message, "Whatever it is you privation to do, you tin bash it."
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Indeed, Dwayne—who is dada to daughters Jasmine, 8, and Tiana, 6, with wife Lauren Hashian, daughter Simone, 23, with ex Dany Garcia—has already gotten a accidental to see Moana 2, which hits theaters Nov. 27, so helium knows the connection shines through and is "just truthful blessed with" how the movie turned out.
He antecedently teased conscionable however hard astatine enactment the formed and crew worked connected the sequel, telling E! News, "We went for it." As for their mentality, helium noted however erstwhile it comes to making a sequel to a movie arsenic "beloved" arsenic the archetypal one, the lone enactment was to treble down connected what the caller movie could beryllium and "really spell for it."
The Rock has besides been moving connected his singing skills, not conscionable for Moana 2, but also for the live-action mentation of the Moana, wherever he'll play Maui erstwhile more.
Sometimes he adjacent gets a accidental to signifier successful beforehand of his fans, noting the "number one" petition helium often receives from them is to sing a fewer bars from Maui's fig "You're Welcome."
"I'm going to sing successful keys that don't exist," helium joked, "but I deliberation we got a shot."
—Reporting by Emily Curl
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