‘Moana 2’ Director Dana Ledoux Miller Was Shopping at Target While Her Movie Broke Box Office Records

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• While Moana 2 broke box office records, earning $225.2 million over its five-day Thanksgiving debut, director Dana Ledoux Miller was shopping at Target in her sweatpants, emphasizing the stark contrast between the film's grand success and the director's down-to-earth reality.
• Miller, who is of Samoan descent, was deeply moved when she first saw the original Moana, with its use of the Samoan language on the global stage, knowing it would create a different world for her own child to grow up in, reflecting the film's broader cultural significance.