'Moana' star laughs off flag incident during Oscar performance

Auli'i Cravalho laughed off Sunday night's Oscars hiccup, when a flag grazed her head in the course of her functionality of a song from Disney's "Moana." "I'm glad a person noticed it," Cravalho stated these days on ABC News' "Great Morning America."...

'Moana' star laughs off flag incident during Oscar performance

Auli'i Cravalho laughed off Sunday night's Oscars hiccup, when a flag grazed her head in the course of her functionality of a song from Disney's "Moana."

"I'm glad a person noticed it," Cravalho stated these days on ABC News' "Great Morning America." "I did get a little bump on the head. It was just sort of like a, 'Hey, you happen to be at the Oscars!' It was a very good reminder. Items take place and you just kind of got to roll with it."

The 16-year-old actress wowed the crowd as she sang "How Far I'll Go" from "Moana's" soundtrack.

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Following her functionality, Cravalho tweeted a photo of herself backstage with the caption reading, "Speechless."

"I have no words to completely describe it, which is why 'Speechless' was specifically the suitable caption for me," she said. "I just felt so substantially enjoy and assistance and I will remember this for the rest of my life."

Cravalho, who worked alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Lin-Manuel Miranda on the animated film, said it was "completely unbelievable" collaborating with the two stars.

"Lin-Manuel Miranda is ingenious through and through and Dwayne Johnson is someone that I had been inspired by because I was a young girl," Cravalho said. "I am still young but I will continue to appear up to the both of them and it was great becoming able to execute with them final evening."

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