Piper Curda never wanted a TikTok. Now she's a Pixar star in 'Hoppers'

As a teen, Piper Curda was a Disney Channel star. Now, she's a TikTok success who headlines Pixar's animated comedy \

When Piper Curda was a Disney Channel kid appearing in “A.N.T. Farm” and “Teen Beach 2,” she couldn’t imagine one day headlining a major Pixar film. Well, she could but maybe not playing a beaver.

Starring in the new animated sci-fi comedy “Hoppers” (in theaters now), “I never thought I would ever be here," she says. "But I am and it feels like a cosmic joke and I don't really know how I got here.”

Curda plays Mabel, a 19-year-old animal lover and college student who wars with the city’s mayor (Jon Hamm) about a highway bypass being built on the glade where she spent many a day with her beloved grandma.

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She discovers her biology professor's technology, which enables human minds to be transferred into robotic animals, and “hops” into a high-tech beaver to stop urban development. Mabel befriends dam-building King George (Bobby Moynihan), runs afoul of an insect queen (Meryl Streep) and meets a ton of critters, from an emoji-loving lizard to a professional killer-for-hire shark.