She’s Simba’s Love Interest…
While Donald Glover stars as Simba, the source says Beyoncé is playing the role of his childhood friend and future love interest, Nala.
And, of course, The Lion King wouldn’t be The Lion King without the one and only James Earl Jones as Mufasa.
Other cast members include, but are not limited to: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keegan-Michael Key, Billy Eichner, John Oliver, Alfre Woodard, John Oliver, Seth Rogen, and Eric André.
Actually, Eichner and Rogen play the roles of Timon and Pumba, respectively. However, Eichner says the role of Timon is “terrifying” for him.
“[Playing Timon is] shocking, it’s bizarre, it’s terrifying. You can’t really do it better than [Nathan Lane] did it, you can just do it your way. I will say one thing that helps with that is that my energy with Seth Rogen is very different, naturally, than what Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella’s energy was. They were both coming out of the that production of Guys and Dolls when they did the Lion King. They did this very vaudevillian, Broadway, musical theater, borscht belt style, which here and there, Seth and I borrow from but we don’t lean into that as much.”
All in all, you can expect Beyoncé’s performance to truly shine bright — as she always does, right?
