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\u201cCrying like a baby\u201d is not the kind of reaction in-flight entertainment usually evokes, but when Lea Salonga was watching KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> \u2013 in which she has a minor singing role \u2013 on a recent trip, that was what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wept,\u201d recalls the 54-year-old Filipino singer and actress, famed for being the singing voice<\/span> behind two beloved Disney characters: Jasmine in Aladdin<\/em> (1992) and the eponymous heroine in the 1998 movie Mulan<\/em>.<\/div>\n

\u201cI watched it on a flight, and I was like, \u2018Why is this movie making me cry so much?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Another work that made her \u201ccry buckets\u201d was Maybe Happy Ending<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite the successful South Korean musical, and then it made its way to Broadway and it won all of the things. It\u2019s such a gem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s anything that those productions have proven, it\u2019s that there is a demand for this kind of [Asian] storytelling. There is a demand to learn about another culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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