Natasha Kundi Lin Manual-Miranda and John M.Chu are making our summer a little more summery with the musical extravaganza, In The Heights. At a global conference, they delved into what it was like working on the film and what the film can bring to the audience.
Talking about the vision that Miranda and co-writer Quiara Hudes wanted, director John M. Chu said “To live up to Lin and Quiara’s vision of what they see the world as and that the world isn’t quite there yet and that we had to find the inch we could push it all forward to get there. I think that what we related on most was about dreams; I knew what it felt like even though I am not from Washington Heights, I’m not Latino. I knew what it felt like to be in my bedroom dreaming about being a director one day when that didn’t exist, someone like me didn’t exist in that position.”
Miranda also said that he feels closest to the character Nina played by Leslie Grace. Miranda added,“Nina feels out of place, she feels out of place at home, she feels out of place at school and I felt like that in a lot of places throughout my life and struggling with those questions with Quiara and putting those questions into our characters we created these communities and these families that are continuing to reverberate into the family of the grid you see before you.I think one of the most satisfying moments; it really didn’t feel real to me until I actually got to watch this extraordinary company you see with my original Broadway company.”
Leading man Anthony Ramos even said, “Watching each character dream specifically whatever they are dreaming for and having the tenacity about the way they go about chasing those dreams in spite of whatever thing they are going through. Hopefully, it gives people the hope they can achieve things they set out to dream of for their own lives and themselves.”
In The Heights is an event to be joined and is an out and out musical journey of goals and achieving your dreams.
In The Heights UK Release Date 18th June 2021
