More Than Moana
Auli’i Cravalho on her new bisexual role, her first Pride and coming out on TikTok CHRIS AZZOPARDI | Contributing WriterTwitter: @chrisazzopardi It’s still open to interpretation whether Moana is on the queer spectrum, but Auli’i Cravalho, who voiced the Disney princess, can assure you of one thing — she’s a proud bisexual.
The 21-year-old actress portrays her first openly LGBTQ character in Crush, a Hulu Original Film with lesbian love at its center.
Cravalho, as track-team runner AJ, plays an instrumental part — saying anything else would give too much away — in the teen rom-com about the unexpected twists and turns in high school romance.
Donning a plaid Coach coat, which she was wearing “proudly for the rest of the day on this couch” since it wasn’t hers, Cravalho talked on video about inspiring LGBTQ youth to be themselves, her message to major corporations like Disney when it comes to queer issues and what about her first Pride event she’s most looking forward to. Dallas Voice: These movies [like Crush] did not exist when I was a teenager, so I can only imagine what it means to queer youth when they see not only themselves in these characters but people who are queer playing them.
