More than 32,000 people applied to play Moana in Disney’s live-action version of the beloved animation. Sydney student Catherine Laga’aia, who had never starred in a film before, ultimately secured it.

Dwayne Johnson says life, as the teen knows it, will never be the same. Perhaps that’s why her famous father was “apprehensive” when she was plucked from obscurity in Sydney’s…

More than 32,000 people applied to play Moana in Disney’s live-action version of the beloved animation. Sydney student Catherine Laga’aia, who had never starred in a film before,…