Raya and the last dragon gay
Raya and the Last Dragon's Kelly Marie Tran says she played Raya as a gay princess
11 Protest 2021, 11:41
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Kelly Marie Tran revealed that she thinks Raya has romantic feelings for Namaari in the movie.
Raya and the Last Dragon actor Kelly Marie Tran has opened up about Raya's sexuality in the production and whether or not Raya is gay.
Disney fans have long been asking the media company to include LGBTQ+ characters in their family films. Over the past few years, there have been a few minor strides with brief moments of Queer representation in movies fond Onward and Beauty and the Beast. However, Disney are still yet to release a feature-length plan with an openly lgbtq+ main character.
While that is still yet to unfold , many viewers believe that Raya in Disney's novel movie Raya and the Last Dragon is queer and now Kelly Marie Tran, who plays her, has revealed that she agrees with them. She even played Raya as a queer character.
In the movie, Raya appears to flirt with her nemesis Namaari (Gemma Chan) and it turns out that that was intentional. Vanity Fair asked Tran about the connection between
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Viewers of Raya and the Last Dragon are already speculating about the central character's sexuality, proving Disney is still repeating its Elsa challenge. The animated motion picture, directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, is being praised for introducing Disney's first Southeast Asian heroine. Raya, voiced by Kelly Marie Tran, serves as the primary protagonist, and a few key scenes are churning up a debate whether or not the character is same-sex attracted. The lack of clarity on Disney's part shows they didn't learn from Frozen's Elsa, nor the obvious lack of LGBTQ+ representation.
Raya and the Last Dragon follows the imaginary world of Kumandra, a kingdom comprised of five different regions based on Southeast Asian cultures. Raya, the princess of Heart, makes it her mission to find the last surviving dragon, Sisu (Awkwafina), after the evil Druun monsters return and decimate the country. On her journey to collect all pieces of the Dragon Gem, an orb possessing the power to revive the population, Raya encounters Namaari (Gemma Chan), a rival warrior princess from Fang. The two women are initially enemies until Nam
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The press tour for Willow might have just dropped a bombshell about LGBT milestones in Disney films. Why Disney and the media didn’t focus on this more, we may never know.
Yet again, the big news flies under the radar, but at That Park Place, we are cursed with the burden of actually paying attention.
On December 8, 2022 NBC News ran a segment called Flipping The Script in which Joe Fryer interviewed Talisa Garcia about Garcia’s role in the Disney+ Willow series. The Flipping the Script series focuses on diversity issues and made two bold claims about the historic nature of Garcia’s casting.
The first is that “Garcia is the first trans person cast by LucasFilm.” Although Disney has recently has a pell mell parade of ever-more complicated “firsts” recently, there is no reason to doubt that such a specific claim is accurate. It does leave the possibility that someone was cast a later hour but appeared onscreen before Garcia. It also does not take into account the other trans people that have been cast by Disney at big or appeared onscreen in some form.
The second one is more interesting:
I liked Raya and the Last Dragon pretty good, overall. Drift partner and I saw it last weekend at a drive-in (drive-ins are an absolutely blessed thing during the pandemic, I must say) and, while we had some questions and thoughts, we talked them through on the drive dwelling and were left with the thought: holy crap, this cartoon was gay*.
For a refresher, Raya and the Last Dragon is about a fictional pan-South Asian world. Once upon a time, the area was called Kumandra and was populated by both humans and dragons; some shadow monsters called the Druun attacked, freezing people as statues, and were only repelled by the dragons’ sacrificing themselves. The last dragon, Sisu, fought the Druun off with a magical orb. Then the kingdom splits into five kingdoms, each named after part of the dragon – Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon, and Tail – and each vying for control of the orb. It stays in Heart for five hundred years, and that’s where our story starts.
Raya (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran) is the princess (chief’s daughter) of Heart and a trained protector of the orb. She’s end with her father Benja (Daniel Dae Kim), who wants to reunite the kingd
Kelly Marie Tran says she'd be 'overjoyed' to work on a queer 'Raya and the Last Dragon' sequel
Kelly Marie Tran is on board if Disney were ever to make a gay "Raya and the Last Dragon" sequel.
Insider spoke with the actress — who's also known for her portrayal of Rose Tico in the "Star Wars" franchise — on the red carpet of the Hispanic Federation's annual gala in New York City on April 28.
While Tran noted that she couldn't speak on behalf of Disney or her fellow actors, she said she would be eager to see her character Raya and Gemma Chan's Namaari get together in a potential follow-up movie or TV series.
"I will converse for myself and say I would be overjoyed to explore that in any sort of sequel in any shape or fashion," Tran said.
"Raya and the Last Dragon" is one of multiple Disney films to feature queer-coded characters in recent years. So when the movie was released in Pride 2021, fans fast pointed out the seemingly obvious lovey-dovey tension between the two animated leads.
Tran later told Vanity Fair that she also interpreted the leading characters to be part of the LGBTQ community.
"I think if you're a person watching this movie and