Dean Fleischer Camp, director of the live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” addressed Agent Pleakley’s non-drag disguise in the upcoming film.
Live-Action Pleakley
Pleakley famously wears a dress, wig, and other traditionally feminine accessories throughout “Lilo & Stitch” and its sequels, in an effort to blend in with humans. Jumba dresses masculine, so the two “pass” as a heterosexual couple.
In the live-action trailer, Jumba (Zach Galifianakis) and Pleakley (Billy Magnussen) are shown in disguise as humans using some kind of hologram technology. Pleakley wears pants and a shirt. When Jumba deactivates Pleakley’s disguise, he’s in his blue uniform shirt.
In his TikTok video, embedded below, Fleischer Camp said people have messaged him asking why Pleakley isn’t wearing a dress and showed a comment reading, “How dare they ruin Pleakley’s disguise like that.” Fleischer Camp’s reply was simply, “I tried,” and he showed concept art of the live-action character in drag.
Fleischer Camp also addressed the difficulties of adapting an animated film to live-action, particularly when it came to getting Stitch’s design right.
“Lilo & Stitch” is a remake of the 2002 Disney animated classic written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Sanders returns to voice Stitch in the remake alongside newcomer Maia Kealoha as Lilo Pelekai, Sydney Agudong as Nani Pelekai, Kaipo Dudoit as David Kawena, Courtney B. Vance as Cobra Bubbles, Galifianakis, and Magnussen. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes wrote the screenplay.
Watch the official trailer below:
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