“Really, I swear!”
lives in the “after,” beyond a young person's coming out day, which is arguably a blank space in film and TV's queer teen representation that is yearning to be filled.proves that queer teens can get tangled up in low-stakes love triangles, can have regular love stories, and can exist beyond the day that they come out. The film's variety of queer characters, both speaking and non-speaking, made for what Auli'i calls a “vibrant” experience on-set.
The safety of that space is what allowed Auli'i to dive deep into her character, from training in track and learning how to skateboard to building a character history and creating memories for AJ — as well as a firm decision to declare AJ as a Scorpio. The Little Mermaid— but it's more young characters like AJ that Auli'i believes will continue to push the needle of queer storytelling and queer teen representation.
“I hope to see characters that are happy and aren't left with residual trauma and aren't forced into a box,” Auli'i shares. "I just hope to see myself, as well, play women who are the women that I see in my everyday life, who are intelligent and speak their minds and [believe] ‘no’ is a whole sentence in itself."
Seeing a diverse spectrum of the people you know in real life reflected on-screen is what Auli'i calls “honest representation," a feat she's proud of her cast and crew for achieving with“I like that [] is gay! If you didn't know that people were gay, now you know people are gay. People are gay,” Auli'i says matter-of-factly.
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