Courtney B. Vance Cast as Cobra Bubbles in Live-Action ‘Lilo & Stitch’

Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance has joined the cast as Cobra Bubbles, one of the antagonists, in Disney's live-action Lilo and Stitch movie.

Vance is best known for his work in HBO’s Lovecraft Country (for which he won the Emmy Award for Guest Actor in a Drama Series) and The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (another Emmy win for Lead Actor in a Limited Series/Movie) for playing the famous attorney Johnnie Cochran. 

He has also appeared in films such as The Hunt for Red October, Dangerous Minds, Space Cowboys, and The Mummy. The film will be directed by Dean Fleischer Camp.

The original film tells the story of Lilo, a young Hawaiian girl who is being raised by her sister, Nani, after the death of their parents. 

Lilo struggles to make friends and connect with those around her, she ends up befriending Stitch, an unauthorized alien experiment with dog-like tendencies, who crash-lands on Earth after escaping captivity. The pair become best friends and attempt to ward off the aliens trying to recapture Stitch.

Cobra Bubbles is initially one of the antagonists of the film, although he never demonstrates any true villainy in the course of the plot. 

Bubbles is a former CIA agent who has become a social worker, and is assigned to Nani's house in order to determine her suitability to be the guardian for Lilo, her little sister.