Disney’s The Jungle Book has tapped Neel Sethi – a 10-year-old New Yorker – to play the lead part of Mowgli.

Mowgli Cast For Live-Action 'Jungle Book' Movie

Sethi doesn’t have professional experience as an actor, though through auditions he proved to have the ability to capture and hold the attention of an audience. Both director Jon Favreau and Sarah Finn have attested to Sethi’s charisma, according to Entertainment Weekly.

In Favreau’s filmic take on Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of stories, the Mowgli character will be the only one played by an actor that will be present on screen. The other characters will be rendered through animation.

Disney’s live-action version of The Jungle Book has attracted a number of big names to work as voice actors on the project. Ben Kingsley will voice panther Bangheera, Idris Elba will voice tiger Shere Khan, Scarlett Johansson will be the snake Kaa and Lupita Nyong’o will voice mother wolf Raksha.

The Jungle Book is slated to bow Oct. 9, 2015.

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