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From the dragon design to martial arts style, there was always one goal

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Image: Disney Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is a film that’s so different from most other movies of its kind, it didn’t even have to be fully formed for writers and actors to jump at the chance to be part of it. Advertisement “It was one of those things where I heard ‘Strong female protagonist,’ ‘Asian inspired dragon’ and I was like, ‘I’m your chick for this. Like a thousand percent,’” co-writer Adele Lim, best known for adapting Crazy Rich Asians, told io9. Lim was brought onto the Disney animated film a few years into development when only broad strokes were i...

Raya and the Last Dragon’s dragon Sisu, voiced by Awkwafina, reminds many of Elsa from Frozen. But screenwriters Qui Nguyen and Adele Lim, along with Kelly Marie Tran, weigh in on the little details that the character unique and the film feel authentically Southeast Asian. The newest Disney animated feature is out on Disney Plus with Premier Access on March 5.

Advertisement Though it was in production years before the pandemic changed everyone’s way of life, Raya And The Last Dragon truly feels like the first Disney blockbuster of the COVID era. Accidentally or not, this lavish animated production resonates with the collective grief of the world it’s being released into, inviting everyone to sit with that pain, even as it hints at brighter days to come. Helmed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, together with co-directors Paul Briggs and John Ripa, the film is still very much a Disney princess story (with nods to a Disney acquisition). But ...