I will level with you: before writing this story, I did not know who Marwan Kenzari was.
This was wrong of me. I see that now, and I apologise unreservedly.
Marwan Kenzari is an actor who’s appeared in Ben-Hur, The Mummy (the Tom Cruise one), and the upcoming Murder on the Orient Express. He also has the honour of being cast in the role of Jafar in Disney‘s hotly anticipated live-action Aladdin remake.
He is… very, very good-looking.
i beg your fucking pardon
The Dutch-Tunisian actor has been cast alongside Will Smith as the Genie, Mena Massoud as Aladdin and Naomi Scott as Jasmine.
Does he fulfil the role described in the original as a “tall, dark and sinister ugly man“?
Hell no, this bloke is more like “smouldering tortured bad-boy with a lust for power that only serves to make him more irresistible“. And literally no-one is upset by this.
Yo @Disney, is your plan to make us shed the prince charming myths you sold us as girls replacing them with bad boy ideas? Cause it may work https://t.co/97gGo38JWL
— Sofia Diogo Mateus (@sofiadmateus) August 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/sunnynalani/status/893549572873637888
https://twitter.com/cheryltunts/status/893562149703868416
https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/893539928415518722
Turns out searching Marwan Kenzari on YouTube was a ~great~ idea https://t.co/AOZrGOzPp5 #HotJafar pic.twitter.com/698RRrWx2u
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) August 4, 2017
me seeing the Jafar casting news #Aladdin pic.twitter.com/0goyp4Afyh
— 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞™ (@thekuhlest) August 4, 2017
Actually, yeah – how are they gonna make that scene where Jasmine fakes being thirsty for Jafar’s snake-staff work in this film? All plausible deniability has gone right the hell out the window. I don’t care how cute and kind-hearted that street rat Aladdin might be – if the formidably sexy Royal Vizier suggests you guys shack up so he can become the most powerful being in the universe, you’re gonna say yes.
