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Video: Jeremy Jordan Is Finding Joy in the Discomfort of FLOYD COLLINS
Jun 7, 2025
Watch in this video as Jeremy Jordan chats more about the Floyd Collins' journey, why this role means so much to him, and so much more.
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Oh, you have two
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Yeah, well, you know, I have my old one from Newsies. Last time I was here in 2012, a bunch of people were wearing multiple pins
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I was like, what's that about? Well, I've gotten multiple nominations. I was like, okay, Kathleen Marshall, you have five pins
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And so I dusted it off from an old drawer and brought it with me
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It looks just like the new one, just so you know. Yeah, they haven't updated it, which is great
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you are nominated for your incredible performance i told you this opening night
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i don't know where you go to create floyd collins but you just you're in that cave and you're like
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stuck there you can't move but we see all the emotion come out of everything in your face
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in your eyes into your soul where do you go uh i i think i am sort of forced to go to places that
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I'm like really uncomfortable going to. Um, I don't have anything to hide behind. I'm just stuck
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My face is straight out to the audience. I don't, I can't use movements or my hand or turn away
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It's just like full open. And I don't know that I've ever allowed myself to be that in life or
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on stage. Um, and so I'm going to, uh, some weird places that I have never been. And I think the
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music specifically and, and also the, the dialogue in the show itself sort of unlocks those places
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And you just have to sort of step through the door and trust them. And, um, you know, Floyd is
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this eternal optimist even when he trapped It kind of magical to sort of see the world through
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his lens um and then eventually everything just kind of goes blurry and and and you start sinking
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and you start your body starts relaxing and every little bit of you just starts kind of like
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coming inward and it's like I'm it's like I'm fading away a little bit you know
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and once you give in to that there's like not really any going back
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there seems to be a freedom with what Tina Landau has given all of you during this show
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to just go wherever you need to go to do the material
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yeah I think she's empowered us in a big way you know we
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we did a lot of exercises early on like as a company to try to figure out
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what the show is and what it means to each of us and what it means to each of our
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characters and how do we get on the same story you know, how we get on the same game
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board, you know, telling the same story playing the same game with one another and
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and I think there's a lot of nuance in the script but there's a lot of nuance
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left to the imagination and it's a big sort of like, yeah, yeah, yeah
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It's a big yes game. And every once in a while there's like, no. And then it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I mean, there's so many things that I'm doing in the show that we've never talked about. She just never said no
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And so I just kept going, which is kind of cool and exciting
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but also like scary. It's like, is she going to say something? I'm doing this weird thing
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and nobody's ever told me to stop doing it. So I'm going to just keep doing it
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