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Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese-American actor and model. He began his career appearing in music videos, made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing and earned widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards. Hounsou became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He was reluctant to renounce his Beninese citizenship and therefore opted to become a dual citizen of both Benin and the United States, effectively rendering him a Beninese-American. Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou. He immigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond. In 1987, he became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1990. One year before obtaining his college degree, he dropped out of school. In 1989, he appeared in a music video of Straight Up by Paula Abdul. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I’m Nothing, and he has had television roles on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias, but received a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1990 Janet Jackson video “Love Will Never Do (Without You).” He also starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh, dancing to a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" by Arrested Development's Baba Oje. He received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the fourth African male to be nominated for an Oscar (along with Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway and Omar Sharif). In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. In 2007, Hounsou began dating model/CEO of Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons. In 2008 Hounsou and Simmons visited Hounsou's family and while there, the two participated in a traditional commitment ceremony. On May 30, 2009, Simmons gave birth to their son, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, reportedly named because Kenzo means 3 (Kimora's third child).
A few decades after the events of the first film, the opening shows the sun rising and the camera moves around in the forest until we see the Wild Things preparing for Carol and KW’s wedding after Carol and KW get married. Carol implies to KW that he misses Max and wishes he was at here and KW says she misses him too, but they along with their friends still has hope to see Max again someday. Three months in the summer after Carol and KW’s wedding. Max now a teenager returns to the Wild Things island with his girlfriend Shannon after telling her everything about them. Carol and Max hug each other as they’ve finally been reunited after a long time. KW, Ira, Judith, Douglass, Alexander and Daniel the bull, comes to hug Max as well knowing that he’s no longer a kid. Max shows his girlfriend to the wild things and they all together welcome her. A few hours later, after Shannon meets the wild things with her boyfriend Max, they then realize it’s getting late and have to go home but promises that they won’t wait to long to visit the wild things again, however a thunderstorm appears waking up Carol and the others and everything that they’ve built, even their houses are destroyed, so the wild things have no other choice but to leave their island to find a new home as they built a raft to sail on. Songs: Good Morning (Mandisa), Wild Ones (Flo Rida) Glow (Todd Edwards) Real Wild Child (Iggy Pop) Firework (Katy Perry) Dirty Paws (Monsters and Men) Where the Wild Things Are (Luke Combs)
