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Sneak Peek - HAMILTON's Javier Munoz & Lexi Lawson Featured on Tonight's MetroFocus
May 17, 2024
HAMILTON's Javier Muñoz and Lexi Lawson will be featured on tonight's MetroFocus on THIRTEEN. During the segment, Munoz discusses the parallels between himself, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alexander Hamilton. Check out sneak peek below!
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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
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Yes, yes, he did
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