Before the "Megxit", which came into force on April 1, 2020, Meghan (38), Duchess of Sussex, landed a new job. In the original version of the Disney film "Elefanten", which will be available on April 3 at the Disney + streaming service, she can be heard as a narrator. Even before the premiere, there was also subdued praise and mockery for Meghan's storytelling. Is this criticism justified? spot on news has already seen the animal documentation.
How does Meghan do as a narrator?
Duchess Meghan's voice is heard in the first minutes of "elephants". Admittedly there is excitement in her voice. The first sentences seem very bumpy – and yes, definitely exaggerated. Instead of reading the text in a monotone, the wife of Prince Harry (35) tries to adapt her voice to the events in the documentary. When it comes to joyful events, Meghan looks upset, sometimes exuberant, but in more serious passages she uses a calm narrative style. It emphasizes individual syllables and emphasizes certain words. Meghan experiments with every facet with her voice.
This may irritate and even disturb one or the other viewer, yet overly lurid criticism of it is exaggerated. Meghan gets along better and better in the course of the almost one and a half hour animal documentation. She speaks up. Her narrative style is not a disaster for her first job of this kind. One thing you can definitely tell from the Duchess of Sussex: she really enjoys her work. At the end of the film there is a look behind the scenes. Parts of the shooting are shown there, but Meghan cannot be seen.
You have to know about "elephants"
"Elephants, shows the journey of the African elephant Shani and her intrepid son Jomo together with their herd of elephants hundreds of miles through the Kalahari desert in Africa. The wise Gaia leads the elephant family from the Okavango Delta to the Zambezi River. On the paths of their ancestors they stand up to the debilitating heat, food and water shortages and dangerous predators directed by Mark Linfield (70), supported by co-directors Vanessa Berlowitz and Alastair Fothergill.
"On the occasion of the film, Disneynature and the Disney Conservation Fund support the organization Elephants Without Borders, which ensures that people and elephants live together peacefully in Botswana," Disney said in advance.