Blue Ivy joins mom Beyoncé in ‘Lion King’ prequel ‘Mufasa.’ Can you feel the like?

Following carrying out with her mom onstage throughout the Renaissance tour, Blue Ivy Carter will be a part of Beyoncé on the big screen.

The mother-daughter duo both voice people in the upcoming prequel to 2019 live-action strike “The Lion King.” “Mufasa: The Lion King,” directed by Barry Jenkins and hitting theaters in December, tells the tale of Mufasa’s life and his childhood with brother Scar.

Carter will voice Simba and Nala’s daughter, Kiara, when Beyoncé will reprise her role as Nala and Donald Glover will return as Simba. Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen also are again as Timon and Pumbaa.

Though the movie marks Carter’s to start with acting gig in a motion picture, the 12-12 months-previous previously has an impressive résumé. In addition to dancing backup on her mother‘s document-smashing Renaissance globe tour, she is a Grammy winner thanks to her element in Beyoncé’s “Brown Skin Girl” new music video, which took house the tunes movie trophy at the 2021 Grammys. Though she received that award at age 9, Carter has been location data and building headlines due to the fact start. Two days just after she was born in 2012, her father, Jay-Z, introduced the track “Glory,” which highlighted her cries and coos. Considering the fact that she was individually credited on the observe, she turned (and remains) the youngest man or woman to look on a Billboard chart.

Beyoncé also a short while ago enlisted the assist of her young daughter, Rumi, as she recorded her new album, “Cowboy Carter.” The track “Protector,” a touching tribute to her little ones and motherhood, commences with Beyoncé’s 6-year-outdated inquiring her to sing a lullaby.

The “Mufasa” teaser trailer, which Disney debuted on Monday early morning, does not reveal regardless of whether audiences can assume to listen to Carter sing, but presented Beyoncé’s musical contributions to the 2019 movie, it is possible that her daughter will comply with match.

When the first 1994 animated movie and the 2019 dwell-motion remake showcased familiar tunes composed by Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, along with one particular unique track by Beyoncé, the prequel will consist of new music by “Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda has become a regular Disney collaborator, doing the job on the tunes for “Moana,” “Encanto” and the 2023 live-motion remake of “The Minor Mermaid.”

Jenkins, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Speak,” claimed Carter and Beyoncé did not have to fake much too much all through the voice performing method and that it was “really special” to check out them work collectively.

“Beyoncé is this larger-than-everyday living determine, but when she’s functioning with her daughter, when she’s in the space with her daughter, she’s a mom 1st,” he mentioned Monday on “Good Morning America” immediately after dropping the trailer. “So a great deal of that vitality bled into the movie.”