Pixar and Disney's colorful new animated adventure Luca has a packed voice cast, led by Jacob Tremblay as the titular character: a sea monster who discovers he can transform into a human boy when he leaves the water. Alongside his new best friend Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), Luca explores the nearby Italian town of Portorosso and tries to keep his true nature hidden from the local humans.
Directed by Enrico Casarosa, Luca is the latest original feature film to be released exclusively on Disney+. It's the second Pixar movie to get a streaming-only release on the platform, after last year's Soul had its theatrical release cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Casarosa told Screen Rant that Luca's story is very personal to him, and he was inspired by his own experiences being a misfit kid when he was growing up in Italy.
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Luca has been praised by reviewers as a small-scale and infectiously joyful story that embraces the childhood innocence of Luca and his friends, and the beautiful surroundings of the Italian Riviera. Here's a guide to the characters of Luca, and what their voice actors look like in real life.
Luca Paguro is a 13 year-old boy who also happens to be a sea monster. He has lived in the ocean for his entire life, herding goatfish with his parents in their underwater farm. But his curiosity about the surface world leads him to stray away from his home, and when he meets another sea monster called Alberto, the two of them go on an adventure to the world above the waves. Jacob Tremblay is known for his roles in Room, Before I Wake and Good Boys.
Protagonists Luca Paguro and Alberto Scorfano meet by chance while Luca is exploring, and
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