How Matt Braly and Brenda Song's Thai heritage helped make Disney Channel's 'Amphibia.' - NBCAsianAmerica
In the animated series “Amphibia,” Brenda Song voices the lead character, Anne Boonchuy, a Thai American teenager who finds herself transported to a mystical land populated by anthropomorphic amphibians. While there, Anne befriends a family of frogs, including one named Sprig.
"She has leaves in her hair. She’s missing a shoe. She’s blasé about everything. I was like, 'Oh, my god, I kind of love her,’” said Song, who previously starred in the network’s sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.”Song, who is of Thai and Hmong descent, also saw the opportunity to showcase her heritage through a role, a priority for creator and executive producer Matt Braly.
“I remember her during her audition, and she’s killing it. One of the executives said to me, ’You know, she’s also Thai.’ I remember being like, ’I’m trying to evaluate the performance and that is just going to extremely bias me,’” Braly said, laughing. “It’s always been a huge goal of mine to create a Thai character. From the very inception of 'Amphibia,' I knew that Anne had to be Thai.”
“But this amazing thing would happen every summer where, by the end of the trip, I wouldn’t want to leave,” he added. “This sensation of getting to a new place, getting very uncomfortable and slowly but surely adjusting was a sensation I wanted to bottle up for my own show.”Anne’s feral appearance — uncombed hair speckled with twigs and leaves — is based off of a picture of Braly’s grandmother as a child.
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