How do you react when someone says youd make a perfect lazy warthog?

What flattery blossoms from being deemed the textbook melodramatic meerkat?

Truthfully, I probably would have been a little insulted if hedidntask me to.

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I was very flattered, and to be totally honest, I agreed!

People way more famous than me would have killed for this part… Ive heard about some of them!

Eichner, 40, says with a laugh.

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Rogen describes the Timon-Pumbaa relationship that he and Eichner forged as a little bit of a married-couple dynamic.

They care deeply for one another.

And that dynamic pays off.

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In DisneysNational Geographic-chic reinvention, the theatrics had to be recalibrated, if not toned down.

Im not saying itssubtle, but it is conversational.

It just feels like two characters who genuinely know one another very well.

And thats Jons sensibility.Jon is so good at is grounding things.

However, the gravitas of photo-realism hasnt changed the fatuous philosophies that define the characters.

Which honestly is probably not the best philosophy for our time.

I think we do need to look out for one another.

We are all part of the circle of life.

He might want to hakuna matrademark that.