Auli'i Cravalho is conscionable 24, but she's already a decennary into her career, and she's shifted successful her assemblage galore times over.
Cravalho made her Hollywood debut voicing the titular "Moana," released successful 2016, and has since made her people successful different movies similar 2024's "Mean Girls," successful TV roles and connected Broadway successful the relation of Sally Bowles successful "Cabaret."
But she hasn't ever gotten the roles she's wanted most.
"The champion mode for maine to get done that is one: time, and two: recognizing that the young pistillate who gets that relation is conscionable similar me, precise antithetic from me, but conscionable similar me," Cravalho told CNBC Make It astatine ZCON, a Gen Z focused league enactment connected by United Talent Agency.
"How tin I beryllium upset astatine a miss who has worked her down disconnected to get precisely wherever she's meant to be?" she added. "And if it isn't meant to beryllium for me, truthful beryllium it, and I person to fto it go."
Behind the scenes, Cravalho has started getting into producing, including becoming an enforcement shaper connected an upcoming live-action remake of "Moana."
The enlargement of the enactment she does is by design.
"For galore of america [in Hollywood], the enactment is seasonal," she said. "When it rains, it pours, and past there's a drought. And erstwhile you're successful a drought, pivot."
Redirecting the absorption of your vocation takes time, being consenting to marque mistakes and committing to learning from them, she added.
Pivoting "took maine walking into a country [and] saying 'I don't cognize what I don't know.' Let maine adjacent my rima and conscionable ticker and perceive and learn," she said.
It's allowed her to physique a vocation based connected her interests and passions, and to find a mode to combat the feeling that she's "inherited a satellite that is connected fire," particularly successful her advocacy astir clime alteration and oceanic preservation.
In 2025, Cravalho associate produced the documentary "Reef" astir 1 of the world's largest coral reef restoration programs.
Cravalho stressed the value of uncovering mentors to assistance you done vocation changes, and called connected leaders to connection enactment to young risk-takers. "[I] americium much than consenting to autumn connected my look if someone's consenting to assistance maine backmost up," she said
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