What on Earth happened to Daviegh?!


I mean, I knew Lilo sounded different in this movie, and I was shocked to find out it's Dakota Fanning! Daveigh's the real Lilo, and she plays her in the TV series, Lilo and Stitch, Stitch the movie, so on and so forth. No one plays Lilo like Daveigh does!!!

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Oh!

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According to Daveigh they are not friends due to the age difference.

"ps, i do not hang out with dakota, she’s quite a bit younger than i am, but we do know each other, as we first met when i was only around 9years old- we were up for the same tv pilot, i think she was about 5 and so full of energy! she was adorable! i last saw her at dreamer premiere and we visited and she is a very sweet girl who i think is amazingly talented :) her mom is also very nice, and her & my mom visited together too. i wish nothing but the best for dakota and for her family, and really i think of them as just normal ppl, because they are."

http://daveigh.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

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I did not relise that it was a different person who was playing Lilo. I don't really pay much attention to the voices. Sometimes. Rarly.

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here is what Daviegh said


for L&S 2, those producers/director were totally different from original film or previous sequels/tv series folks, and these new guys thought b/c of my age, i would sound too old to continue with lilo, also i think money might have been an issue? lol b/c they originally hired a young girl from canada to do lilo for it, but she really did not sound like the lilo (voice/personality) i had created at all, so then-- in attempt to save their movie, they got dakota to do it, and no, of course i am not upset about dakota voicing lilo! Lilo is awesome, and i’m glad dakota had the opportunity to do it, what little girl wouldn’t want to be lilo? :) the sweet thing is, everyone incl producers etc i was currently working with on L&S series- all thought i should have been lilo for glitch as well. ad i would have gladly done it, as i love love lilo, she’s part of me! ( i voiced lilo for almost 8 years!) but it was too late for glitch folks to hire me as they had already hired dakota. also, dakota is a star name especially compared to me, so if they could have dakota, why not? they think about bottom line (sales etc) and not the fact that alot of folks who are into animation are especially loyal to the original voice talents. which i thank everyone for being so kind to me, voicing lilo is one of the biggest highlights of my career to date. i loved every moment of it. and fyi- even after dakota tapped as lilo for glitch, i was still asked to do the next dvd sequel, which ended up the series. i was happy about that

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Dan Castella (The voice of Homer Simpson) had to voice the Genie in Aladdin 2: The Return of Jafar and the TV series.

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My nine month old daughter loves lilo and stitch and is all she really likes to have on the TV so i watch the series and the original movie about 30 times during the day.. although i love dakota fanning [my daughter is named dakota LOL] it was really distracting for me that her voice was different.

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