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#psa these are only the most popular voice actors who are CONFIRMED as Māori
coruscanti-arabi · 2 years
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A List Of Known Māori Voice Actors that Star Wars could've hired for the clones instead of whitewashing them.(Please feel free to add more)
Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement. - Ngāti Kahungunu through his mother.
Daniel Logan. - Of Māori descent. Best known for his portrayal of Boba Fett from the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones & voiced Fett in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Temuera Derek Morrison (MNZM). - Te Arawa (Ngāti Whakaue) and Tainui (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rarua) whakapapa. For those unfamiliar, whakapapa means genealogy. East Coast elder, Apirana Ngata, explained that whakapapa is ‘the process of laying one thing upon another. If you visualise the foundation ancestors as the first generation, the next and succeeding ancestors are placed on them in ordered layers. Played the role of Jango Fett in the 2002 film Attack of the Clones, provided the voice of Boba Fett in the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back, portrayed Boba fully in the second season of The Mandalorian and in the show The Book of Boba Fett.
Taika David Cohen (ONZM), also know as Taika Waititi. - Describes himself as a "Polynesian Jew". His mother's family were Russian Jews & His father was of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui descent.
Piripi Taylor. -Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa.
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