For Dwayne Johnson, 'Moana' runs in the blood

Some parts end when the cameras stop.

Maui — the role Dwayne Johnson plays in Disney's "Moana" — is, the actor will tell you, something closer to an inheritance.

"I don't even consider him a character," Johnson said of the seafaring epic's shape-shifting demigod, a part he first voiced a decade ago and now plays in the flesh.

"I consider him just part of the culture and lore of Polynesian culture, so it just becomes very natural." Johnson, the former WWE star known as The Rock, joined co-star Ca ...