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Piper Curda Says Authentic Retail TikToks Led to Her Hoppers Audition

She frames the experience as encouragement for people who feel stuck in service jobs.

Overview

  • Hoppers follows Mabel, a 19-year-old whose mind is transferred into a robotic beaver, with Piper Curda voicing the lead.
  • Curda says TikTok posts about her retail work during COVID and the SAG-AFTRA strikes caught the right eyes and led to an audition.
  • Her TikTok recounting the path to Hoppers has drawn roughly 123,300 views, according to the Daily Dot.
  • She notes she was working at Allbirds when she auditioned and later called the timing a motivating reminder that things can align.
  • Curda describes a chance reunion with her former Allbirds boss at Disneyland with co-star Bobby Moynihan and says she shared her story to encourage others, drawing supportive comments from viewers.