{"id":35263,"date":"2026-03-11T03:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35263"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:11:36","slug":"how-hoppers-star-piper-curda-hopes-to-inspire-people-in-pixars-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35263","title":{"rendered":"How Hoppers star Piper Curda hopes to inspire people in Pixar\u2019s new film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/10\/760103e9-7636-40af-bb6c-aa0dfbaee7ba_0ca568f2.jpg?itok=pgTJdGCJ&amp;v=1773120609\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For Piper Curda, who voices the animal-loving college student \u2060Mabel Tanaka in <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Hoppers<\/em>, caring about the planet does not necessarily make the character an activist.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI think Mabel presents as an activist. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019d call herself one,\u201d Curda says. \u201cShe\u2019s just like, \u2018I care. Why does that need a label?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With that said, Curda does hope Mabel\u2019s determination rubs off on audiences.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI do hope her drive to make the world a better place inspires people, whether that\u2019s little girls or full-grown adults,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Hoppers<\/em><\/span>, from Walt Disney\u2019s Pixar, follows Mabel as she transports her consciousness into a robotic beaver to study \u2013 and ultimately save \u2013 the animals of a nearby forest glade.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The voice cast \u200cincludes Bobby Moynihan as King George, a beaver monarch, and Jon Hamm as Jerry Generazzo, a power-hungry mayor. Hamm says <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the \u200cmovie<\/span>\u2019s themes could not be more relevant.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3346062\/how-hoppers-star-piper-curda-hopes-inspire-people-pixars-new-film?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Piper Curda, who voices the animal-loving college student \u2060Mabel Tanaka in Hoppers, caring about the planet does not necessarily make the character an activist&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17776,1900,3454,17067,9473,121,12012,17068,297],"class_list":["post-35263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-curda","tag-film","tag-hopes","tag-hoppers","tag-inspire","tag-people","tag-piper","tag-pixars","tag-star","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}