\tLilo (Maia Kealoha)<\/p>\n
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\n\tMaia Kealoha is making her film debut as Disney\u2019s live-action Lilo, a young Hawaiian girl who discovers Stitch and adopts him into her family with her big sister Nani. The 8-year-old actor is the spitting image of the fun-loving, optimistic Lilo from the original movie. Daveigh Chase provided the original voice of Lilo in the 2002 movie.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tStitch (Chris Sanders)<\/p>\n
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\n\tChris Sanders, who co-directed and co-wrote the original \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d returns to voice the blue, adorable alien. The hyperactive, CGI-animated Stitch looks just like his 2D animated version against his live-action counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tNani (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong)<\/p>\n
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\n\tPlaying Lilo\u2019s big sister Nani is 24-year-old Sydney Elizebeth Agudong\u2019s biggest Hollywood role yet. After their parents die before the events of the movie, Nani is Lilo\u2019s legal guardian and looks after her socially isolated sister. Sydney is also the older sister of actor Siena Agudong, who\u2019s appeared in \u201cSidelined: The QB and Me,\u201d \u201cResident Evil\u201d and more. Tia Carrere, who originally voiced Nani, returns to play a social worker in the new movie.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tDavid (Kaipo Dudoit)<\/p>\n
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\n\tKaipo Dudoit plays Nani\u2019s boyfriend David, who\u2019s a surfer and fire dancer. Dudoit was added to the cast after Kahiau Machado, who was originally chosen for the role, was recast after using a racial slur. David\u2019s original voice actor Jason Scott Lee returns to play a manager at a l\u016b\u02bbau.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tDr. Jumba Jookiba (Zach Galifianakis)<\/p>\n
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\n\tJumba is the mad scientist who created Stitch in the first place. He\u2019s a large, four-eyed alien who travels to Earth with Agent Pleakley to recover Stitch, but soon befriends Lilo and Nani. Jumba was originally voiced by David Ogden Stiers, but \u201cHangover\u201d comedian Zach Galifianakis takes over in the live-action film.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tAgent Pleakley (Billy Magnussen)<\/p>\n
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\n\tPleakley is a so-called alien \u201cexpert\u201d on Earth who\u2019s sent to find Stitch along with Dr. Jumba. The one-eyed extraterrestrial is a nervous wreck who uses disguises to blend in with the human population. \u201cAladdin\u201d and \u201cRoad House\u201d actor Billy Magnussen takes over the role, which was originated by Kevin McDonald.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tCobra Bubbles (Courtney B. Vance)<\/p>\n
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\n\tCourtney B. Vance plays the comically named Cobra Bubbles, who is a federal agent on the hunt for Stitch. In the original movie, Bubbles was Lilo\u2019s social worker who threatened to place Lilo in foster care if Nani can\u2019t do a proper job of looking after her. In the remake, Bubbles takes on the agent role that the whale-headed alien Captain Gantu originally had in the animated movie. \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d star Ving Rhames previously voiced Bubbles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\tGrand Councilwoman (Hannah Waddingham)<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Grand Councilwoman is the leader of the Galactic Federation who orders Jumba and Pleakley to chase down Stitch. \u201cTed Lasso\u201d star Hannah Waddingham voiced the gray alien, who was originally played by Zoe Caldwell.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d Disney\u2019s latest live-action remake, is crash-landing in theaters this weekend. It arrives 23 years after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,56208,55667,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-127363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lilo-stitch","10":"tag-lilo-and-stitch","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114561547607313395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}