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Favreau, on the other hand, seems to think that the prime time for romance is when the sun still hangs high in the sky. So when Donald Glover and Beyoncé finally start belting Simba and Nala's signature song, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," it's more like "Can You Feel the Love in the Late Afternoon." For the record, Newman is aware of the incongruity between the song's lyrics and the scene's lighting. "It's a question for the filmmakers," he says with a chuckle. "That was a decision that was made, and we followed that direction. Our job is to visualize the vision of the filmmakers, you know? If that's what they wanted, then that's what they wanted." Newman can hazard a guess as to why Favreau and his Oscar-nominated director of photography, Caleb Deschanel, chose the daytime over the nighttime, though. "It's a big moment where you really want to see the characters, and it's hard to use natural-looking lighting in a nighttime environment, especially when you're supposed to be shooting [the film] like a documentary," he notes, adding that he's never spoken at length with Favreau and Deschanel about that choice. "The mood of the lighting has the right qualities to go with the song, even if the song is at night!" Rather than focus on the time of day, Newman and his team paid more attention to depicting the body language of two lions in love. "Jon's notion was that you don't have to overdo the expressions of a lion in order to connect emotionally with a lion, you use the visual storytelling to help. We have controls on our facial rig that allow the animators to kind of push certain muscle groups around and move, say, the upper brow into a sad position. But if you're seeing that on a lion, you're really pushing it. So we looked a lot at lion behavior for reference: like Nala lifts her head up and licks Simba, and with the combination of the lighting, camerawork and music, it produces an emotion you believe. If we went beyond that, that's when it would feel overworked for Jon. He was always thinking, 'Let's keep this real and not make it too exaggerated.'"

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