Levi Asaf is Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 'extraordinary little fellow' to a T, in a groundbreaking new stage production of The Little Prince. 🤩 | via philstarlife
As fans young and old know well, the titular character inNine-year-old Levi Asaf has an exuberant afro instead. But with his sparkling eyes, infectious smile and pint-sized charm, the Brazilian actor is Antoine de Saint-Exupery's"extraordinary little fellow" to a T, in a groundbreaking new stage production of the beloved children's book.The Little Prince
"I think he would have liked it," Asaf, a bubbling phenom from the northeastern state of Bahia, said of the late French aviator-author, who published his fanciful tale of the planet-hopping young prince in 1943. Decked out in the Little Prince's signature teal tunic, Asaf sings, dances and bounds through the production, from his famed introductory request to the pilot-narrator:"Please... draw me a sheep."At school, classmates used to harass Asaf, calling him names such as"steel-wool head," said his mother, Rosane Luiz Eloi."But I'm very proud of him. He never let it get to him."The following year, when he was six, she was diagnosed with cancer.
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