He said: “[It is the] first film I’ve ever done, first audition ever – I never thought of acting.
“My dance teacher said I’d be very good for it so I tried it out and they really liked me, and we started filming two weeks later.
Sethi added that his favourite character is Shere Khan, voiced by Idris Elba, because ‘no one wants to mess with him’.
He wasn’t scared by the darker version of the story, but the advanced technology was a surprise: “I feel like if you can watch the trailer and you don’t get that scared, then you can watch this movie.
“What I was seeing wasn’t finished at all and so when I first saw it, I was like ‘oh my god’.
“There’s this one second where Bagheera just looks up and it just looks so real.”
