TikTok Star Drew Afualo Makes Case To Be Cast In ‘Moana’ Live-Action Film: “I’ll Play Moana’s Dad If That’s What It Takes”

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Drew Afualo does not mess around when it comes to calling out misogynist men on TikTok and is now putting people on notice after she failed to receive an invite to audition for the live-action adaptation of Moana.

The content creator is known to use humor on TikTok and shared a video where she made a case for herself to be given the opportunity to be part of the Disney film. “I want to talk to you all about something a little confusing,” Afualo said in the video. “So, apparently, there were auditions, like an open casting call, for the live-action Moana.” Afualo said she heard about the open casting call from her Samoan family.

She went on to list films featuring Samoan people like Sione’s Wedding, Once We Were Warriors, and The Legend of Johny Lingo, noting that Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins “has five or six of the same Samoan people I have seen in many other movies because there’s not many of us so they have to go back to the well a bunch of times.” The social media star went on to flex her friendship with Auliʻi Cravalho, who voiced Moana in the animated film, and also her meeting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, having interviewed him multiple times at red carpet events. “Why the f*** has no one called me?

Did my invitation get lost in the mail?” Afualo questioned. “Y’all got The Rock? Anyone else you can think of that might be Samoan and not a big bald man necessarily.