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Ilona Maher was Luisa from Encanto in Dancing with the Stars
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Ilona Maher was Luisa from Encanto in Dancing with the Stars

Fans applied pressure all season long like a drip, drip, drip, and finally they made it happen: Olympian and TikTok darling Ilona Maher performed as Encanto‘s Luisa Madrigal on Disney night Dancing with the stars. “I really resonate with Luisa. I also grew up to be a bigger woman,” she said in the rehearsal package during the October 22 episode. “She is big and wide, but she is so beautiful. She never tries to shrink herself before the world. I’m so happy that I’m sharing that with people now.”

During the jazz routine of “Surface Pressure,” Maher carried the weight of the world — and the weight of her donkey partner Alan Bersten — on her shoulders to earn her first nine of the season from judge Carrie Ann Inaba. Now we all know that Disney loves a live-action remake. We haven’t heard anything about adjustment plans yet Encanto but if it has to happen, we have one modest request: no people dressed as animals, please. Forget Bruno, it should be Bersten’s terrifying look below that we’re not talking about.