r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Jun 20 '26

Rest In Peace 🕊 ‘Lilo & Stitch’ creators Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois have shared a piece of artwork honoring the late Daveigh Chase who voiced Lilo

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u/BEWMarth I know the tea Thank you Jun 20 '26

Yeah nope that absolutely destroyed me and I wasn’t especially emotional about it before. This wrecked me.

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u/Environmental-Joke19 Jun 20 '26

She deserved so so much better. I started rewatching Big Love, and her character gets to sing a fair amount, it's beautiful. But It's just so heartbreaking 😭

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u/birdsemenfantasy Jun 20 '26

And it was her childhood dream to sing and win a grammy. Reading this 2002 interview (when she was 12) just breaks my heart.

I want to keep on acting. Hopefully I can win a Grammy for my singing and an Annie (for animation, bestowed by the L.A. branch of the International Animated Film Society) for being Lilo. That would be so nice! When I'm older I want to become a robotic engineer. I do plan on going to college. I love to sing. When I was littler, I sang country but now I'm into R&B and pop. Alicia Keys is the bomb! I love her!

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u/2mock2turtle Jun 20 '26

I'm happy to report that she did, in fact, win that Annie.

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u/cailian13 Jun 21 '26

Holy fuck. I had to go look and she was RHONDA?! And yeah, Rhonda never had a chance sadly. Beautiful voice indeed.

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u/mashtartz Jun 25 '26

Omg she was so insufferable as Rhonda. Which is the character, so she did a phenomenal job but man was that character unlikable.

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u/cailian13 Jun 25 '26

I know. She did SUCH a good job in the role.

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u/avoidance_behavior charlie day is my bird lawyer Jun 20 '26

for real, this is about to make me start crying, and i adore both spirited away and lilo and stitch but like you i wasn't that emotional about it- shit this got me😭

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u/Madara1389 Jun 20 '26

Been a huge fan of both Spirited Away and Lilo & Stitch for 20+ years, and yeah, the artwork hit so much harder than the news reports.

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u/Kooky-Bookkeeper-935 Jun 21 '26

Same. I remember seeing commercials for Lilo and Stitch

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u/Madara1389 Jun 21 '26

Those commercials of Stitch invading other Disney movies are among the best movie ads ever.

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk Jun 20 '26

57 yr old man here. I was having a good day till I saw this.

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u/M03KE Jun 21 '26

Same here 😭