Moana’s Live-Action Maui Design Explained After Wig Backlash

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Moana director Thomas Kail explained how they chose Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s wig for the character of Maui. Kail described visualizing Maui as a traditional navigator, imagining him with the wind in his hair on a canoe. Because much of the film takes place on water, the team had to consider how the wig would look when wet, and the wig itself weighed seven pounds when fully saturated – a significant weight considering how long Johnson wore it each day.








