North West being given the role of Simba at a Lion King production has led to huge backlash. Parents of young audition-goers and ‘production assistants’ are now speaking out on North’s audition.
Kim Kardashian is jokily being accused of “throwing a couple hundred dollars” at the workers during North West‘s Lion King audition. The youngster was brought in as casting whittled it down to four actors.
North West cast for Lion King role
North West was cast for the live Lion King role of Simba, in which she wore her own costume. She was a special guest in production at the Hollywood Bowl over Memorial Day weekend.
She performed as Young Simba in the May 24 and May 25 production, singing I Just Can’t Wait to be King from the animated film in honor of its 30th anniversary, but the role has led to serious backlash.
Billed as a “special guest” alongside Jennifer Hudson, Kim celebrated North’s stage debut online and shared several behind-the-scenes videos and images with her castmates, getting ready.
Kim Kardashian ‘threw $200’
A TikTokker joked in his video how four kids were left – three girls and one boy – before an executive producer came in to introduce North to audition. She “beatboxed Animal Crackers song,” they joked.
Kim then “brought Gypsy Rose into the room pretending to be North’s manager,” the TikTokker hilariously said, even though her client “doesn’t rehearse” like the other talented kids.
He said how Kim “threw a couple hundred dollars at us” to get her daughter a part, before he ended the viral video with, “Everyone should go easy on her, she auditioned just like everyone else.”
Parents of actors rage over casting
Parents of children who auditioned for the Simba role are raging, with many calling North a “nepo baby” for being Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter. Even though technically, they made her famous…
One particularly angry parent, whose daughter has been on Broadway four times, claimed her child had been it through four rounds of callbacks – until she heard someone in the industry was “pulling strings”.
“We found out it was North West on that final audition. We had heard they wanted to cast a talented kid but one that doesn’t have a name because they wanted to uplift a smaller voice,” the mother continued.
She went on to claim Kim paid for her daughter to audition, saying North “does not have the experience as you could see,” and telling “Mr. Hollywood” she “hopes he learned his lesson not to cast a nepo baby”.
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