Dr John Kani said that the royal wedding ceremony was ‘no large deal’ in South Africa.
A Lion King actor and buddy of Nelson Mandela says he is “baffled” after Meghan Markle claimed she used to be told people in South Africa “rejoiced in the streets” over her marriage to the Duke of Sussex.
In a current interview, the Duchess of Sussex instructed The Cut journal that an unnamed South African actor from the cast of the 2019 film of The Lion King made the surprise proclamation for the duration of the London premiere.
“He regarded at me, and he’s simply like light,” Meghan recalled. “‘I simply need you to know: When you married into [the royal family], we had fun in the streets the same we did when Mandela used to be freed from prison’.”
However, Dr John Kani, who voiced the mandrill shaman Rafiki in the Disney film, has now claimed that he used to be the solely South African actor in the production, and also stated that he had in no way met the Duchess and did no longer attend the UK premiere, according to MailOnline.
The Royal Shakespeare Company veteran insisted that Markle’s 2018 wedding to Prince Harry was once “no large deal” in South Africa, stating: “I can't even tell you now what month she married or what year”.
Dr Kani stated that her feedback “seem like some thing of a faux pas by way of her”, including that “it simply may be a misremembering on her side”.
He stated that the solely other South African worried in the movie used to be Lebo M, a composer who labored alongside Hans Zimmer, however that he used to be now not a section of the cast.
“We had no South African hyperlink to the wedding or to her marrying Harry,” he continued. “I am without a doubt surprised by way of this. For me, it is a non-event, the entire thing.”
Dr Kani’s comments echo these made via Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zwelivelile Mandela, who said he used to be “surprised” by means of Markle’s remark.
The MP and tribal chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council said: “Nelson Mandela’s launch from penal complex was the fruits of almost 350 years of conflict in which generations of our people paid with their lives.
“It can by no means be in contrast to the celebration of someone’s wedding,” he added.
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