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A whole new world lyrics mena massoud3/10/2024 ![]() I think Middle Eastern, Asian, Latinx and everyone else that doesn’t really get representation still, that’s something we have to work on as an industry and a community and I’m just really proud of this film for what we were able to achieve. People talk a lot about Black Panther and it was brilliant (in its) representation and I think African Americans are becoming decently represented in Hollywood. If there’s one thing I’d say I’m proud about on this film, I’d say the representation we were able to achieve. How does this movie tackle the cultural sensitivity issues around the portrayals of Middle Eastern/South Asian worlds? There was controversy around some of the portrayals and some of the lyrics were changed in later years. But throughout the movie, you see the evolution of their relationship much like you do with Aladdin and Jasmine, and Aladdin and Abu, and Aladdin and Jafar, you get to see all these relationships, which is what I think makes it really special.īack in 1992, Aladdin was one of the very few representations of Middle Eastern culture in mainstream Hollywood, and for the longest time, remained so. What he does so brilliantly is that he starts out treating Aladdin like he would the 10,000 masters that he’s treated before, and actually it’s a little worse because he’s like ‘who the hell is this kid that’s in this position now?’ - he’s never really had someone as young. He’s not trying to be Robin Williams, he’s doing the ‘what would Will Smith be like if he were Genie?’ We talked through the archetypes of what this relationship is, what it goes from, what it evolves to, and you can see that from Will’s performance. Will’s amazing, I couldn’t ask for anyone better, bigger, more generous and more grounded to work with on this, he’s just incredible. ![]() What did you two discuss about capturing the beautiful friendship between Aladdin and Genie? You land your first major movie lead role and get paired with Will Smith as the Genie.
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