Rise's Auli'i Cravalho & Damon J. Gillespie Open Up About Their Close Friendship Off Screen

Auli’i Cravalho and Damon J. Gillespie pose together just outside of the Build Series studios in New York City on Monday morning (April 2).

The two Rise actors appeared on the program to chat about their new NBC series. You can watch their interview below!

Speaking with THR just recently, Auli’i and Damon opened up about how their on-screen friendship turned into a strong bond off-screen as well.

“He’s fantastic,” Auli’i says of Damon. “I’m really grateful to have a co-star that I trust in the sense where I’ve never played a character in this particular field.”

He added that their friendship has only gotten stronger since they started to film the show.

“Now that we’ve done more of the show, we’ve gotten to have a lot more encounters just she and I, so we have more time to talk, and we have more time to really form a really close friendship,” Damon shared. “…It’s really blossoming into a really pleasant friendship.”

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