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In Mufasa: The Lion King, Kelvin Harrison Jr. brings unexpected depth and vulnerability to Taka—the young lion who will one day become the infamous Scar.

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00:00Yeah. So I'm actually glad you brought up the filmmaker too, because I'm a huge fan of

00:04Barry Jenkins, man. What was it like working with Barry as a director on a project that's

00:09so beloved and iconic? He's the care. It's the care. He takes

00:14us to attention to detail. I think with a filmmaker like that, and also his instinctual

00:21ability to find the nuance, but find a way to simplify it just enough so that audiences

00:32understand who these young men were. The theme of brotherhood, the theme of coming of age,

00:38the theme of finding your role in leadership, the theme of feeling like an outsider in spaces,

00:46a theme Barry does so elegantly. And I knew we were going to be in good hands, though I definitely

00:56challenged him some days, and I was just kind of like, all I see is these sketches on the screen,

01:02and it's been a year and a half, so I want to see the movie soon, but I'm in here with you. I know

01:09you got this. And then I started seeing some of it, and I was like, this is absolutely beautiful,

01:13so I just was grateful that something that was so beloved to me and Aaron being a movie that came

01:22out our birth year in 94, a movie that we grew up with, was in the hands of a filmmaker who cared,

01:29who loved it, who understood it, and who was definitely going to create something epic and beautiful.

WATCH | Kelvin Harrison Jr Shares Experience Working With Barry Jenkins

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