
She brings a vitality to the role that I’m hard-pressed to believe could be duplicated by anyone else. There definitely isn’t a better choice for the bold and daring Raya than Tran, that’s for sure. But I can absolutely say that the voice talents of Kelly Marie Tran, Gemma Chan, and Benedict Wong, among others, are used particularly well and to their fullest potential. I’m not one to want to spoil anyone’s first viewing experience, so I won’t go into much detail about the goings-on of the plot with this Raya and the Last Dragon review. Raya’s desire to not only right the wrong she had a hand in causing, but to go further than that to try to realize the dream her father envisioned in her youth, burns bright and strong from the moment we meet her in the broken future. You see also see their relationships with the people around them and the world, and it all contributes to this journey of seeing how they become the women that people love - or hate - depending on your personal opinion.Following the lyrically successful Soul, Disney presents an imaginative romp through a collection of fantasy Asian nations to tell the story of a daughter’s quest to make her father’s most desperate dream come true.Īnd an adventure it surely is. “You need to see a significant amount of how Milly and I interact to actually find that journey. “I think it was really important for Miguel and Ryan to show the origin story of how these women came to be the women that know,” she says. Like her co-star Milly Alcock, who plays Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Carey was surprised and excited to see how much screen time Dragon was devoting to Alicent and Rhaenyra before the other actors take over the roles. But it was certainly intimidating because I admire Olivia as an actor and a person, so I was just excited to be in the mix for it.” “The main thing they were looking for was just that we could make the same choices and perform the same character. “But the main thing was, watching her work, our acting styles are actually very similar, which is something I think had clocked,” Carey says. Carey had been repeatedly told she looked a bit like the Ready Player One actress before she landed the Dragon role, and when Cooke debuts onscreen later this season, the two look so similar it actually takes a few moments to realize the actors have changed. “Apparently, I looked like a lot of people - or I’m just very moldable.” She also starred in the 2020 fantasy film Anastasia: Once Upon a Time.Ĭarey’s physical similarity to Olivia Cooke - who takes over the role of Alicent Hightower partway through the first season of Dragon - is rather uncanny in the series. “I seem to have made a niche for myself playing ‘the younger version,'” she quips. The English actress has been working since she was just 8 years old and appeared in various roles in the London theater before playing young Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) in the 2017 DC film Wonder Woman and then a young Lara Croft in the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot. Yeah, it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.” … In the rehearsal room, was a massive help and on-set she was a massive help. “Still being 17, the first scene that I read from the show was my sex scene and my intimacy scenes, that includes the scene where I’m bathing the king. That said, Carey emphasized, “For the most part, I had the best experience and I wouldn’t change a thing.”Ĭarey further noted to Newsweek that the show’s intimate scenes “scared” her, but the use of an intimacy coordinator on set made her feel comfortable. But it was difficult at times, I’ll be honest.” It was a lot of fun trying to navigate those relationships. Of course, none of it’s real and as actors we love to step out of our comfort zones. But especially when it’s put into a world and dialect you don’t normally speak in, you can feel very far removed from the characters. I want it to be as grounded and as truthful as possible. As actors, we bring a lot of ourselves to the people that we play.
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But it's just so much fun Made entirely in the manner of a movie comic book, the film creates a rich and wacky environment for its entirely 2 dimensional and endlessly quotable 'cardboard' characters. We even have Michael 'Car Wash' Schultz directing. So to navigate those relationships and the journeys that those individual relationships go on was super challenging. Sure, it's like disco in the wrong year, with Motown soundtrack and lots of lingo. And I also have never had a romantic interest - especially not with an older man. “I don’t have an equivalent in real life.

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“As an actor, personally, in full transparency, I struggled with Alicent’s relationships with her dad and Viserys,” Carey says.
