Sneakerella’s taking the Cinderella story and doing a enjoyable and trendy gender swap. Chosen Jacobs stars as El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens who works as a inventory boy within the shoe retailer that after belonged to his late mom. Sparks fly when he meets Kira King, the daughter of a sneaker tycoon. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Chosen about Sneakerella’s contemporary and related spin.
The actor admitted that he loves how the film “flipped it to the place though there’s nonetheless love, nobody’s ready for somebody to return save them. You continue to need to go on the market and put your greatest foot ahead. I don’t meet Kira if I don’t make the shoe, and he or she’ll by no means discover me if she doesn’t put out the publish, so I feel it simply promotes a more healthy imaginative and prescient of what love actually requires, which is a bit of little bit of bravery and a bit of little bit of effort.”
A serious draw for Chosen was the music featured in Sneakerella. The Disney+ movie begins off with “Kicks,” a slick, high-octane musical quantity that takes inside El’s world in Queens.
“‘Kicks’ was undoubtedly was the tone-setter,” Chosen famous. “We knew that was going to be the intro to the film, and I need that to really feel like a celebration. I need it to really feel like get your mama, get your grandmama, and let’s stand up and let’s transfer. That undoubtedly needs to be the cornerstone of who I feel El is as a result of that’s his dream, and that’s actually what the entire film is about is him attempting to achieve that.”
Rising up, Chosen “lived” for film musicals like Excessive College Musical. “I lived for the songs. I lived to study these dances with my sister and see who may pull it off,” Chosen stated. Sneakerella will likely be out there to stream on Disney+ on Could 13.
