Now, their lives intersect once more as Miranda bringsTick, Tick… Boom!
“It’s all been leading to this for me,” says Miranda.
“It felt like it was a message in a bottle just for me,” he recounts.
Andrew Garfield in ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!'.MACALL POLAY/NETFLIX
I very consciously learned from Larson that everything you listen to is fair game for musical theater storytelling.
“I left thinking, ‘He can do anything,” Miranda says.
“It was an amazing voyage of discovery for me,” Garfield notes.
“He was always at an 11,” he reflects.
“There was no other setting.
It was an opportunity to forget any idea of underplaying.
There was no such thing for Jon.
He was always exploding and bursting forth because he couldn’t help it.
“He doesn’t only want his dreams realized, he wantseveryone’sdreams realized.
He made everything an event.
He wanted to frame everything with a special magic, and he did it for everyone around him.
He wants everyone to be their own particular note in this grand harmony of a truly meaningful life.”
“Because that is also part of the story.
I love movies where we get inside the writer’s head.
“What is the best way to unlock this song and this part of the storytelling?”
“Every song had to earn its place from a story standpoint,” Miranda notes.
ThoughRentwas Larson’s first show to hit Broadway, he was a truly prolific writer.
“Every decision was guided by ‘What would Jonathan Larson do?
What would Jonathan Larson’s version of this movie be?”
In other words, how do you measure a year in love?
