Before Lin Manuel Miranda dreamt up Hamilton, he was known for the musical In The Heights which has now been made into a movie.
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Usnavi’s dreams are “so big”, says star Anthony Ramos – stepping into Miranda’s shoes and taking on the lead role in the movie adaptation ofMiranda, Ramos, Melissa Barrera, who plays Usnavi’s girlfriend Vanessa, director Jon M. Chu and the rest of the cast are all here in Washington Heights to fete their film and release the first trailer for the movie.
In the Heights stars Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Dascha Polanco and Jimmy Smits. Picture: Roadshow“I started writing this show because I wanted to see the kind of show that I wasn’t seeing and I wanted to fill in what was missing in the world for me,” Miranda explains. “The goal was to write a show that really honestly reflected the neighbourhood that I grew up in … I just wanted to portray that with love.
“We have an administration that has never been more hostile to the Latino community than this administration is,” Miranda says, “and the fact that we have a big Hollywood movie where we are asserting that we are the next wave of the American dream … I think that’s really important. I wish it weren’t radical, but it happens to be.”, agrees. “There was no one that looked like me onscreen growing up,” the Puerto Rican American explains.
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