How Beyoncé Inspired Lin Manuel-Miranda’s New Album
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00:00Can we talk about the fact that behind you is like a real giraffe, that we were literally
00:07at this safari park?
00:08I mean.
00:09It's super weird.
00:10During the interviews, I keep seeing the journalists get like a look of wonder on their faces.
00:12I know it's because it's not because of my answer to the question.
00:17I thought this was a comedy.
00:18I think you could include an enthusiastic rambunctious warthog a little bit more.
00:22And a charismatic meerkat you can't help but fall in love with.
00:26Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner joined the stars bringing their voices to Mufasa the Lion King
00:31out Friday.
00:32And it's not just the kids who are fans of their work.
00:35Billy, meeting Travis Kelce.
00:36You did what?
00:37I was at a party after the Oscars this year and I walk into the party and the first people
00:43I see are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
00:45Which is wild.
00:46And then I'm mingling at the party and then this is all true.
00:49I feel like a very like bro-y like pat on my back.
00:53Very hard, right?
00:54And it's Travis Kelce and he looks at me and very confidently shouts Jimmy on the street.
01:03I love you man.
01:05And then he like fist bumps me.
01:08And he was like beaming, right?
01:12I could not bring myself.
01:13You couldn't correct him.
01:14I could correct him.
01:15Oh you didn't correct him.
01:16No.
01:17And all night I kept seeing him and I could not correct him.
01:21Billy is adding more than just Tavis to his list of celeb encounters.
01:26How are you feeling about now counting Blue Ivy and Beyonce as co-stars?
01:29Pretty weird.
01:30Yeah.
01:31Very unexpected.
01:32We were on Beyonce's album.
01:35Hakuna Matata.
01:36Remember that?
01:37Yes.
01:38She used gifts.
01:39She used our voices.
01:40We were technically on Beyonce's album.
01:41Yeah, that she made when the 2019 one came out.
01:42We do not get any residuals.
01:43No, not a dime.
01:44Gifting us this time around is Lin-Manuel Miranda with seven new songs on the soundtrack.
01:57Beyonce's Inspired By album, which I feel like expanded the vocabulary of like what
02:02a Lion King song could sound like.
02:03There was a lot of space to play.
02:05Aaron Pierre is Mufasa and recognizes the importance of the role played by the late
02:10James Earl Jones.
02:11We are all connected in the great circle of life.
02:15James Earl Jones's name is synonymous with an abundance of greatness, including the 1994
02:23original and his hoping that we've served him and we've honored him and his legacy to
02:28not only Lion King, but to the world.