I think Adele, who's Malaysian myself Fawn, who's Thai the other people on our team who have Filipino descent and Indonesian descent, we all were trying to do things to homage the cultures onscreen that you never get to see onscreen. But I wanted to ask, as a Vietnamese screenwriter on this film, were there any particular specificities of Vietnamese culture that you brought into the script?
So, Qui, I actually went to see your play Vietgone when it was playing in D.C., but I made the mistake of seeing it with my parents, which made for a very awkward experience. And seeing it come from Walt Disney, I think it'll help our children be inspired and to be proud of the cultures that they come from, that was something that felt very important to us. Like, there have been movies about Southeast Asia, but you've never seen it at this scale.
Qui Nguyen: And personally I think that, with Adele and myself, it's just a pleasure to see the culture that we come from be celebrated in a big Disney film. As you probably heard we had a cultural team that was really working with us closely to make sure that we could showcase this diversity in the movie. And I think we just couldn't have thought of a better region to set the story and it really informed every single creative decision that we made throughout the entire process. That was what the movie was about, it was about unity, it's about the lands of very different kinds of people coming together. And within the land of Kumandra you're able to see this diversity in each of the lands that we travel throughout our movie, so you'll see it in the food and the clothing. And that's what allowed us to create a world that was deeply inspired by these cultures. And, and it was something we knew in Kumandra we wanted to have similar type of diversity of culture, of peoples, of flavors of our lands. They hadn't been explored as Don mentioned in Disney movie, but also the diversity within the region was, I think, very, very important. So, it felt fresh and unique to build our fantasy world out of Southeast Asian inspiration.Ĭarlos Lopez Estrada: And the other thing that I think was there from the very beginning when our predecessors were when we joined was that Southeast Asia - I mean obviously the cultures in Southeast Asia are incredibly beautiful and unique. But I think for us what it did is it was a unique culture and landscape that we really hadn't seen a big Disney movie. We came on about a year and a half ago and I think for us, the inspiration to really do a deep dive into Southeast Asia, even though it's a fantasy film, it felt very important for us to do as much research as possible into Southeast Asia. In the five years since this story started being developed, why was Southeast Asia the geographic area that was honed in on as the ideal cultural inspiration for Kumandra in Raya and the Last Dragon?ĭon Hall: As you noted, the film has been going for what five years, six years now.
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