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Lilo & Stitch 2 Films In Waikiki, And Stitch Brought Angel Along

Lilo, Stitch and Nani riding in a car in a still from Disney's 2025 live-action Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch 2 moved its cameras to Waikiki on Monday, filming at Hilton Hawaiian Village and along the resort’s lagoon and beach, and the day’s best photo had two familiar blue and pink faces in it. Stitch, wearing a bucket hat, sat beside Angel on top of a big blue cooler while a crowd of onlookers watched from behind the set.

Reel News Hawaii, which follows film and TV shoots around Oahu, caught both characters on set that afternoon.

What The Set Looked Like

The Stitch and Angel shot was taken in the hotel’s garden, with crew working in the tropical plantings around the cooler. Later in the afternoon, Waikiki local Hawaii Isla 808 posted several sets of photos and video from around the resort. They show a crew standing waist deep in the water around a young actor on a surfboard, a girl wading along the shoreline as a crew member looks on, a camera rig set up beside a water feature on the hotel grounds, and a bright yellow sports car parked under the hotel’s main entrance with lights and diffusion frames around it.

Angel is the newest piece of the sequel. Disney introduced her at D23 in August with a short teaser that showed off her antennae, and Maia Kealoha, who plays Lilo, joked on stage that there were now two of them. Angel, also known as Experiment 624, first appeared in Lilo & Stitch: The Series as Stitch’s love interest.

Filming Started Last Week At Bishop Museum

Production on the sequel officially began last week with a traditional Hawaiian blessing at Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, who plays Nani, and Amy Hill, who plays Tutu, were there, along with Governor Josh Green. Green said in a social media post that the film, with a mostly local crew, means real jobs and millions of dollars in economic activity for the islands. The museum shoot was closed to the public.

Chris Sanders, who co-created the original animated film and has voiced Stitch since 2002, is directing the sequel. Jonathan Eirich returns as producer through Rideback, with Ryan Halprin as an executive producer. The first live-action film earned more than $1 billion worldwide last year.

When Lilo & Stitch 2 Arrives

Disney has Lilo & Stitch 2 set to open in theaters on May 26, 2028, the start of Memorial Day weekend, the same slot the first film used. The sequel tells a brand new story, and plot details are still under wraps.

Fans who want more Stitch before then will not have to wait that long. Sanders and Kealoha are also together in the new animated short Lilo & Scratch, which plays in theaters ahead of Hexed this November.

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