In January 2021, it was announced that Massoud would star as the leading role in his first Egyptian film, Fe Ez El-Dohr. He is also slated to reprise his role of Aladdin in an upcoming sequel. In January 2022, Massoud portrayed the male lead in Netflix's feature film, The Royal Treatment alongside Laura Marano.
Mena Massoud deleted his Twitter profile after facing backlash over his comments comparing his 2019 live-action Disney movie Aladdin to the new Little Mermaid film.
The Los Angeles-based actor began a plant-based diet in 2015 after he and his two best friends and roommates in Toronto learned about the effects of animal products on health and the environment. They encouraged each other, and Massoud began by cutting out eggs, red meat, chicken and other animal-derived foods.
Of course, the best moment was when Mena leaned in to give Naomi a kiss on the forehead. Aww! Though Naomi is happily married to English footballer Jordan Spence, we still can't get enough of her magical friendship with Mena.
Jasmine and the Sultan are finally freed, and she and Aladdin become engaged after the Sultan abolishes the law so that Jasmine can legally marry whomever she chooses.
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Mena Massoud (Arabic: مينا مسعود; born 30 May 1992) is an Egyptian-Canadian actor. He is known for starring as Aladdin in the Disney fantasy movie Aladdin (2019).
Early life. Mena Mansour Massoud was born on September 17, 1991, in Cairo to Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian parents Gorgit and Mansour Massoud. He has two elder sisters, Marian and Margaret, who both work in the medical field. He and his family emigrated to Canada when he was three years old.
The original Aladdin story was actually set in China. Aladdin is one of the stories compiled in The Thousand and One Nights — a collection of Middle Eastern and Indian folk tales, however, it did not appear in the original Arabic text.
Mena Massoud was an Egyptian-Canadian actor who came to prominence with a lead role in a live action adaptation of one of Disney's most beloved animated classics. Born on September 17, 1992 in Cairo, Egypt, Massoud was raised in Markham, Ontario.
A graduate of Ryerson University's notable theater program, he got his first big break starring in ABC Spark & Teen Nick's mystery-drama television series "Open Heart" as "Jared Malik." Since then, he has appeared in several major film and television productions including "Combat Hospital," "King" on Showcase, "Masters ...
Remember way back during they had an extended casting call for Aladdin? There was some news surrounding Disney supposedly resorting to white actors because they couldn't find any people of color who could sing and dance.
Filming. Principal photography began on September 6, 2017, at Longcross Studios in Surrey, England, and wrapped on January 24, 2018. Part of the film was shot in Wadi Rum Desert, Jordan. The Royal Film Commission provided support to the production during filming and assisted in facilitating logistics.
Aladdin didn't need a genie to grant it box office gold in its debut stretch. Upon opening May 24, Disney's live-action remake of its animated hit grossed $112.7 million across 4,400 domestic theatres over Memorial Day Weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Mena's hair is naturally curly. That means that if you have naturally curly hair like his, you'll need to invest some time in straightening your hair first, before you can achieve this look.
Malek was raised in his family's Coptic Orthodox Christian faith, and spoke Egyptian Arabic at home until the age of four. He has an identical twin brother named Sami, who is younger by four minutes and later became an ESL and English teacher. His older sister, Yasmine, is an ER doctor.
While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian. It's a debate that has fueled speculation that in Hollywood, Indians and Arabs are interchangeable.
In the collection of tales recorded around the 15th century in Arabic, and which comprise "The Thousand and One Nights" or "Arabian Nights," Aladdin and Jasmine were actually residents of Baghdad, Iraq, a city widely considered a center for Arab culture and civilization.
Disney's 1992 animated Aladdin movie features the grossest moment in the company's history - the kiss between Jasmine and Jafar. The 1992 animated movie Aladdin may be a Disney classic, but it also contains the studio's grossest moment.
Jafar reads aloud from the ancient scroll he so cleverly doctored, and proclaims that now he must become Jasmine's husband, and – most importantly – the next sultan! Jasmine and the Sultan try to stop Jafar, but to no avail, for Jafar now holds the power of the lamp.
From bottom left to right: The Sultan, Jasmine, Aladdin, Abu, Iago, and Jafar. The lead character of the franchise is Aladdin, who was originally a street urchin. During the course of the franchise, he starts living in the palace of Agrabah and becomes engaged to Princess Jasmine.
