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Iron Man 3 and The Jungle Book are connected. “People always tell actors they should never work with children or animals,” Ben Kingsley said at the presentation for The Jungle Book (April 2016). “Well, I worked with a child and I played an animal, and I’d say any time — you have my number!”
Working with child actor Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli in the live-action re-telling of The Jungle Book, taught the knighted actor a great deal, he added. Kingsley was tapped for the role of Bagheera the Panther after meeting director Jon Favreau in a holding room for Iron Man 3, to which Kingsley jumped at the chance, "I am now a part of that which moved me as a child so much.”
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