John Oliveris addressing thoseBeyoncéPhotoshop rumors.
After fanspeculationthat the pop star had been digitally added intoThe Lion Kingcast photoreleased earlier this month, the late night host addressed the rumors during a recentappearanceonThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Oliver voices Zazu in Disney’s live-action remake of the iconic 1994 animated film, while Beyoncé stars as adult Nala.
“There’s a lot of speculation here that everybody else in this photo is actually there, except not Beyoncé,” hostStephen Colbertexplained. “People are speculating she was photoshopped in. And you’re right next to her — can you tell us whether she was there?”
“She wasn’t there,” Oliver, 42, responded, adding, “I think almost everybody else was there.”
“I remember Chiwetel [Ejiofor, who voices Scar] — we were setting up the shot and Chiwetel was sitting in the front and he said, ‘You need to be careful where your foot is,’ ” Oliver recalled. “I looked down and there was just this piece of tape on the floor with Beyoncé’s name written on it.”
“Just the future presence of Beyoncé was so intimidating — if you look at my face in there, I look really intimidated,” he continued. “That’s because what I’m doing is imagining that I am about to be put into a photo with Beyoncé one day. And that was nerve-wracking enough.”
The cast ofThe Lion King.Beyoncé/Kwaku Alston/Disney
Colbert, 55, then pointed out the sizable gap between Oliver and Beyoncé in the photo.
“It’s only appropriate that there’s a significant gap between me and the actual queen,” Oliver joked.
Over the weekend,The Lion Kingdominated the box office, earning an estimated $185 million at 4,725 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according toEntertainment Weekly.
The remake marked the highest-scoring domestic launch ever for a PG-rated film and the highest July film opening ever.
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Billy Eichner, who voices the meerkat Timon in the movie, recently opened upto PEOPLEabout appearing on the classic track “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” alongside the star.
“I am on a track with Beyoncé, which not many people can say, which is really bizarre and insanely cool,” theBilly on the Streethost, 40, said.
Though they didn’t record together in the studio, Eichner has since gotten to meet 37-year-old Beyoncé (andPrince Harry and Meghan Markle!) atThe Lion King’s London premiere.
source: people.com
