After performing with her mother on stage during the Renaissance tour, Blue Ivy Carter will join Beyoncé on the big screen.
The mother-daughter duo voice characters in the upcoming prequel to the 2019 live-action hit “The Lion King.” “Mufasa: The Lion King,” directed by Barry Jenkins and hitting theaters in December, tells the story of Mufasa's life and his childhood with his brother Scar.
Carter will voice Simba and Nala's daughter Kiara, while Beyoncé will reprise her role as Nala and Donald Glover will return as Simba. Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen also return as Timon and Pumbaa.
While the film marks Carter's first film performance, the 12-year-old already has an impressive resume. In addition to dancing backup on her mother's record-breaking Renaissance world tour, she is a Grammy winner thanks to her involvement with Beyoncé. “Dark-skinned girl” music video, which took home the music video trophy at the 2021 Grammys. Although she won that award at age 9, Carter has been setting records and making headlines since her birth. Two days after her birth in 2012, her father, Jay-Z, released the song “Glory,” in which she cried and cooed. Since she was individually credited on the song, she became (and remains) the youngest person to appear on a Billboard chart.
Beyoncé also recently enlisted the help of her youngest daughter, Rumi, while recording her new album. “Cowboy Carter.” The song “Protector,” a touching tribute to her children and motherhood, begins with Beyoncé's 6-year-old son asking her to sing him a lullaby.
The trailer for “Mufasa,” which Disney released Monday morning, doesn't reveal whether audiences can expect to hear Carter sing, but given Beyoncé's musical contributions to the 2019 film, it's likely her daughter will do the same.
While the original 1994 animated film and the 2019 live-action remake featured familiar tunes composed by Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, along with an original song by Beyoncé, the prequel will feature new music from the “Hamilton” mastermind. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda has become a frequent Disney collaborator, working on the music for “Moana,” “Enchantment” and the 2023 live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.”
Jenkins, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning films “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” said Carter and Beyoncé didn't have to fake much during the voice acting process and that it was “really special” to see them work together. . .
“Beyoncé is a huge figure, but when she works with her daughter, when she is in the room with her daughter, she is a mother first,” he said Monday in “Good morning america” after dropping the trailer. “A lot of that energy seeped into the movie.”
