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"Mufasa: The Lion King " stars Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr. dive into their real-life friendship and how it nods to their film's message about the value of found family and brotherhood.
Between those legacy-fueled opportunities, Pierre and Harrison Jr. also celebrated their 30th birthdays. According to them, that milestone, coupled with the same-year release of their series and film, has stirred up all kinds of musings. The photorealistic prequel, which hit theaters on Friday, is told largely through campfire-style flashbacks set in Africa that reveal Mufasa and Taka’s expansive journey toward their destinies — one contemplates the responsibility of carrying on his royal bloodline, while the other longs to reunite with his long-lost parents in a fabled paradise called Milele . Amid their quest, the pair encounter deadly dangers that test the strength of their bond and, ultimately, change them forever.
But gets to show you all that he had to overcome and endure and brace through to get there. He was an orphan, he was separated from his family, he was dismissed, he was labeled in a particular way and he was othered and ostracized. How does one work through that and become what we meet in the 1994 original? This gets to show that, and I think that is something that is inspiring and very energizing.
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