{"id":26771,"date":"2019-07-10T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1055639"},"modified":"2019-07-10T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:25:00","slug":"donald-glovers-son-cant-wait-to-see-the-lion-king-but-not-because-of-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/donald-glovers-son-cant-wait-to-see-the-lion-king-but-not-because-of-his-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover&#8217;s Son Can&#8217;t Wait to See The Lion King&#8211;But Not Because of His Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019610\/rs_600x600-190710050638-600-donald-glover-emd-071019.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"48.309948979592\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"39.22193877551\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/donald_glover\">Donald Glover<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s son,&nbsp;<strong>Legend<\/strong>, is a big fan of <em>The Lion King<\/em>\u2014but not for the reason you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old actor recalled his son&#8217;s hilarious reaction to being asked to see the film on Tuesday&#8217;s episode of <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Glover&#8217;s son loves the classic Disney film and is a huge animal lover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can run faster on all fours than two feet,&#8221; the <em>Atlanta<\/em> star recalled while wearing a lion onesie. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, he decided to avoid ruining any movie magic and&nbsp;not tell him he played Simba in the new remake. Considering Glover&#8217;s son doesn&#8217;t watch any television\u2014and therefore wouldn&#8217;t see any trailers for the film\u2014he thought this would be easy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to play it super cool,&#8221; he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>But as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055533\/the-lion-king-premiere-see-every-look-as-beyonce-and-more-stars-arrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premiere date<\/a> approached, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/904066\/donald-glover-welcomes-baby-no-2-with-girlfriend-michelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the father of two<\/a> decided to see if his son&nbsp;was interested in seeing the movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he was like, &#8216;Oh sure. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s in it, right?&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;How did you know that? But also, daddy&#8217;s in it. I&#8217;m in it, too,'&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the rapper said he&#8217;s still puzzled by how his son knew Queen Bey was in the film.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just saying, Beyonc\u00e9 has people who haven&#8217;t even seen television loving her,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.141781681305\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.976160602258\">\n<p>Glover is a fan of the &#8220;Singles Ladies&#8221; star, too\u2014so much so, in fact, that he joked he didn&#8217;t want to be in the same room with her for the recording of the song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1050987\/listen-to-beyonce-and-donald-glover-sing-lion-king-s-can-you-feel-the-love-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can You Feel the Love Tonight<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not want to be looking into Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s eyes while doing this,&#8221; he quipped, later noting they recorded separately due to work commitments.<\/p>\n<p>He even got a little starstruck when he visited Beyonc\u00e9 and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jay_z\">Jay-Z<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s favorite pizza place and actually saw the power couple there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[My partner and I] talked for like about 10 minutes,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;We&#8217;re like &#8216;Are you going to say something? Go say something. No, you say something. You&#8217;re the famous one\u2026.&#8217; It was like 10 minutes and then you go over, and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;Oh hey!&#8217; And then you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What are you doing here? &nbsp;I didn&#8217;t see you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p><em>The Lion King<\/em> roars into theaters July 19.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055639\/donald-glover-s-son-can-t-wait-to-see-the-lion-king-but-not-because-of-his-dad?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Glover&#8216;s son,&nbsp;Legend, is a big fan of The Lion King\u2014but not for the reason you&#8217;d expect. The 35-year-old actor recalled his son&#8217;s hilarious reaction to being asked to see the film on Tuesday&#8217;s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Glover&#8217;s son loves the classic Disney film and is a huge animal lover. &#8220;He can run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-13 13:33:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}