Tinashe Speaks On Playing The Little Black Girl In The Polar Express

Tinashe revealed that she played the little girl in the 2004 digitally animated film “The Polar Express.”

The Popstar recently appeared on The Zach Sang Show to promote her new album, “BB/ANG3L,” and discussed her time filming “The Polar Express.”

“I was in fourth grade. We had to come in every day and wear these big motion capture suits,” Tinashe says. “It was in the very early days of mocap technology so it took them like four years to like animate it and if you watch that movie the animation is so weird now. It’s crazy that it took them that long to make something that looked so weird.”

Tinashe continued: “It was a really cool experience. Working with Tom Hanks. And also what was really cool was because we weren’t actually on real sets. It was all in a studio and they would build the sets out of wires. So that they could see through like the walls, the floor whatever. We were reading the lines but then they re-recorded all of the audio.”

Check out the social media reaction after discovering Tinashe played the little girl in “The Polar Express” below.

Am I the only one who didn’t know Tinashe was the motion capture model for The Polar Express????? pic.twitter.com/dLDcze0dtc

— 💧 ɹɐɯʎɐɹ 💧 (@Raymxr_) September 12, 2023

i was today years old when i learned that tinashe was the polar express girl 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/FOvkaxJT0p

— tay is patience (@plainpotatotay) September 12, 2023