After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 film musical “In The Heights,” the pair nearly labored collectively on 2024’s largest Broadway adaptation: “Wicked.”
Throughout a latest look on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Miranda defined that he had his eye on the position of a munchkin who delivers a essential line within the opening scene of “Depraved.”
“Within the opening variety of the present, this one munchkin runs out and goes, ‘Is it true you have been her pal?’ As a result of, man, I don’t know for those who’ve seen a dwell manufacturing of ‘Depraved,’ however typically they actually put some sauce on the ball after they ship that line,” Miranda mentioned.
He continued, “It’s the place the story begins. So I used to be like, ‘I actually needed to do this line, Jon.’ And I used to be not solid.”
Miranda admitted that “it might’ve been distracting” to see him in Munchkin Land and went on to reward the girl who received the position, Kirsty Anne Shaw, for her efficiency.
“The younger lady who does it within the film is nice,” Miranda mentioned. “She does it very earnestly. I’d have executed very Regina George, ‘Imply Women like,’ ‘Is it true you have been her pal?’ Didn’t make the lower.”
Chu beforehand revealed within the “Wicked” director’s commentary that he obtained “many calls” from Miranda concerning the position, who might have even “tweeted about it” in a last-ditch effort to hitch the solid. Nevertheless, Chu agreed that Miranda’s involvement would have been “too distracting.”
“Depraved,” starring Cynthia Erivo because the Depraved Witch of the West and Ariana Grande as Glinda the Good, has been nominated for 10 Oscars at this 12 months’s Academy Awards. The movie obtained nods for greatest image, lead actress, supporting actress, authentic rating, manufacturing design, make-up and hairstyling, visible results, enhancing, costume design and sound.
