Beyoncé feels the love tonight, will play Nala in The Lion King

Way back in March, Jon Favreau tempted fate by noting that he wanted to add Beyoncé to the already-excellent cast of his “live-action” Jungle Book remake, and now it looks like that plan has actually worked out. Tonight, Beyoncé herself shared a photo of the full Lion King cast on her Facebook page, confirming that she’ll be playing Nala—the lion who basically saves the kingdom by pulling Simba out of his whiny, self-obsessed funk with one romantic musical number. This will be Beyoncé’s first movie role since Epic in 2013, but The Lion King will hopefully turn out better than that one did.