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Talking about the role of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda said this
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I can't overstress it. Javi and I created the role together. It really took two people to make it work
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Now, I know you've said the same thing a number of times. So how did that work? How did you two create this role together
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Well, Lin, of course, wrote all the material. And in the room with Thomas Kail, our director
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it became a process of a lot of conversation. Not only between Lin and I, but between the three of us
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And Tommy really guiding the flow of the work. And so Lin would go up there and play the scene
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Andy is putting it on its feet with Tommy. And Alex is putting it, you know, getting everyone..
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Everyone's putting their two cents in to create the actual scene. I watch. I watch what Lin does. I hear what Lin does
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And at this point, very often, I don't need to have too much conversation with him
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I can listen to what he's trying to accomplish. And understand and get all the information from that alone, even
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And I take that information. We tag each other in and out
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Yeah, I heard you say that. We really do. You're up, you know, and that's it
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And then I go up and I'll play the scene again. Lin will watch or Lin, Tommy and everybody will watch
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And I'll put my layer on to what Lin just did. And then we tag each other again
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And just back and forth. And that's how we build the thing
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So you build it together. And, of course, you play the same character, one Alexander Hamilton
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But there are differences. Obviously there are differences. What are the unique contributions that you have made to this performance
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You know, I think it comes down to just being who I am
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As an artist, all you can bring to a character is exactly who you are as a human being
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The sum of your experiences and all that you know. And so I find it difficult to differentiate between my version and his version
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The whole process was about marrying the two. So I don't see much separation
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But I do know what I'm bringing to it is just the sum of who I am
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Oh, yeah. And, of course, you're the sexy Hamilton. Ben Bradley of the New York Times said, I forgot that
