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Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas recounts the incredible experience of filming a movie in Kenya, comparing the sound of a real wildebeest migration to the iconic stampede scene from 'The Lion King.'
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00:00You remember when Mufasa dies in Lion King, right?
00:03You remember that moment where the sound of the wildebeest?
00:08Yeah, so that was all around us.
00:10You were in the middle of?
00:11In the middle of real wildebeest because it was during the migration period and that's what he wanted.
00:18He wanted specifically, so we kept moving our chute because the animals weren't starting to migrate.
00:24And as soon as their migration process started, the whole crew picked up and we went there.
00:28And we shot them and we were, as actors, we had ranges around us.
00:33But because our frames were so wide and they had to be out of frame.
00:37There's a family of elephants coming.
00:38Oh my gosh, and we kept following.
00:40We kept following them.
00:41Wherever the elephants went, they had to be in our background.
00:45And we had to do this scene like banter of talking to each other.
00:48And you can see the family of elephants right behind us and they were all real.
00:54So it's like the government of Kenya really, really helped us shoot the way I don't think that's been shot
01:03ever before.
01:04So

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