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"I didn't know that I was yearning just to see someone who looks like me."Now Tran hopes her upcoming Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon will allow Southeast Asians, who are rarely featured in Hollywood, to feel seen on the big screen. Raya's father was also killed, and the film follows her journey as a warrior to find the last dragon, who she believes can save Kumandra.Given her love of Crazy Rich Asians, it almost seems fated for Tran to work with two of its alums on Raya: Awkwafina, who voices Sisu the dragon, and Adele Lim, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Qui Nguyen.Raya, like her predecessor Moana, will continue to reshape the definition of a Disney princess."She is someone who is technically a princess, but I think that what's really cool about this project, about this character specifically, is that everyone's trying to flip the narrative on what it means to be a princess," Tran says.
As said here by Rachel Yang