Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
Raya and the Last Dragon has been available to Disney+ subscribers (for a fee) for the past two months now, but the Disney fantasy epic finally gets a home video and physical release release this month.
Ahead of the Blu-ray and Digital release, /Film spoke to
Raya and the Last Dragon co-director
Carlos Lopez Estrada, producer
Osnat Shurer, and Head of Story
Fawn Veerasunthron about which storylines they cut from the movie, LGBTQ representation, and hot the hotness of Chief Benja (Daniel Dae Kim) sent the crew into a bit of a frenzy. Read our interview below.
Are animated dads getting hotter? Once an afterthought, cartoon fathers are finally getting their due.
By Kyle Buchanan New York Times May 14, 2021 8:34am Text size Copy shortlink:
I thought the whole man-bun thing was played out, and then along came Benja.
First, there s his voice, which is warm, soothing and capable of delivering large amounts of exposition in a single breath. Then there s his face: high cheekbones, strong eyebrows, no pores. And would you look at the way he dotes on his daughter, Raya? Come on, the guy s a catch.
With all of those things going for him, Benja quickly leapt to the top of my long list of quarantine crushes. Still, whenever I tried to imagine some sort of futu
Are animated dads getting hotter? An investigation
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Raya with her father, Benja, the subject of fan crushes, in Raya and the Last Dragon. Photo / Supplied
Raya with her father, Benja, the subject of fan crushes, in Raya and the Last Dragon. Photo / Supplied
New York Times
By: Kyle Buchanan
I thought the whole man-bun thing was played out, and then along came Benja. First, I sparked to his voice, which is warm, soothing and capable of delivering large amounts of exposition in a single breath. Then there s his face: high cheekbones, strong eyebrows, no pores. And would you look at the way he dotes on his daughter, Raya? Come on, the guy s a catch.
Investigative Journalism: Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter?
“They’re humble-hot, often rumpled and lived-in, like you searched for a nice-looking ex on Facebook and found that he’s got a wife, kids and that certain something-something.” Our culture reporter @kylebuchanan on hot cartoon dads. https://t.co/6FBJuXhLVb The New York Times (@nytimes) May 7, 2021
They mention only Disney movies and 3 fathers (one who isn t even human, but uh, ok)
There is a big focus on Chief Benja (Daniel Dae Kim, Raya and The Last Dragon ), where many people on Twitter were like This dude is hot. in their reviews.
“See, I don’t think even I could pull that off, so in some ways, he’s far superior to me,” said Daniel Dae Kim, about Benja s ability to look nice in teal tunics.