Dora the Explorer holds a special place in the hearts of millions of people around the globe, whether they grew up watching the plucky, multilingual world traveler's adventures in learning or enjoyed seeing their children do the same.
She's become a backpack-laden icon -- one that the actors in the cast of the new film "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" knew had to be treated with respect.
"Dora meant a lot to me growing up, because I grew up with her," actress Isabela Moner told CNN at the movie's Los Angeles premiere.
Moner plays the lead in the new film, which ages the character up from her 7-year-old animated iteration to a teenager finding her place in the world, and was born in 2001, a year after the series first debuted on Nickelodeon.
"I had the haircut and everything," she laughed. "I felt like it was a big part of my life as a multicultural person as well, so to be in a movie like this is amazing." Moner, whose mother was born in Peru, said she was also thrilled to celebrate the Dora's place in the pop pantheon as an early role model for Latinx children and share the screen with an A-list assortment of actors of Latino descent, including Eva Longoria, Michael Pena, Benicio del Toro, Danny Trejo and Eugenio Derbez.
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