In this video, Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong open up about bringing beloved sisters Lilo and Nani to life in the new Lilo & Stitch movie. Maia shares what Lilo means to her and her Hawaiian culture, while Sydney talks about the emotional depth and responsibility of playing Nani. From sisterhood and sacrifice to family bonds and cultural pride, this conversation gives a behind-the-scenes look at how the cast honored the story—and each other.
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00:00I love Lilo's freedom and fierceness, but what did you like most about playing this character?
00:07This character means a lot to me and my Hawaiian culture too,
00:13but most importantly that she's not perfect, but she's perfect in other different ways
00:20and that she tried to fit in and stuff, but now she does, now that an alien crashed on Earth
00:31and he stitched their family back together.
00:34There are many responsibilities and sacrifices that come along with being the oldest.
00:39In what ways, do you have siblings?
00:41I do, yeah. I have a younger sister and I have two olders.
00:45Nice, nice, nice. Now, in what ways did playing Nani stretch you?
00:50Because it was so believable. I love watching you all together.
00:53Thank you.
00:54How she catch you.
00:55I mean, well, first and foremost, I mean, working with Maya was a dream.
00:59I mean, you don't see every day a six-year-old who's done literally like nothing beforehand.
01:07This was her first movie and she's killing it and she was a blast to work with.
01:12And I think the bond that we created made everything just blissful and fun and real.
01:20Like everything that you saw on screen was very real.
01:23And I think a lot of the things that I really related to up front with Nani was,
01:29not only was I a huge OG fan, but I also just understood the older sister aspect of everything.
01:39And that was kind of her, at her core, she lives for her family.
01:44And she lost her parents and she's trying to take care of her younger sister
01:48and doing everything in her power to make sure that they're not pulled apart.
01:51And it's something that is very real these days.
01:55And I think that as an 18-year-old to go through that is incredibly stressful.
02:01And I think that that was the stretch, I think, in the way of I, luckily enough,
02:05have never gone through something so traumatic.
02:08But I also know what it's like to sacrifice or want to sacrifice everything for my sister
02:14and protect her to know until the world's end.
02:17And also kind of so much so that you do sacrifice your own wants and needs.
02:23And Nani does that.
02:26And at the very end, it's incredibly wonderful to see her younger sister give that back to her
02:31and allow her that freedom and that blessing to go and live her life now
02:38and tell her that it's okay, which is, oh, that's a really hard thing to do
02:43and a very selfless thing to accept as well.
02:48I think as far as the familial dynamic, it really allowed me to kind of see.
02:54I didn't know what it was like to have social work or going through all of that stuff.
02:59I think it allowed me to kind of see a wider scope of what my parents sacrificed for me.
03:04And I think every single day we practiced that because we were filming that
03:10and we had to take that into account for everything that we did.
03:13And at Nani's core especially, that was everything that she was fighting for.
03:18And the Hawaii community is a strong, strong set of foundation for that.
03:24And we were surrounded by our own family while we were shooting.
03:28We created one, too, while we were filming, which was a blessing
03:32and doesn't always happen every day.