Garfield also connected to the director’s enthusiastic style of working. When you look at Lin’s work, it’s all these things.” “I knew this was going to be a rich meal of a story and it was going to be full of emotional depth and ambition. That’s the nightmare.”Įven though it was a personal risk, Garfield jumped at the chance to work with Miranda on his feature-directing debut. Am I letting the side down? The last thing I want to be is the slow coach at the back of the pack. Garfield - who picked up a SAG best actor nomination for Tick, Tick… Boom! - adds that this is something most actors feel with any role. “I was wondering, ‘Do I have the chops? Can I get this skillset to be of service to the film?’” “I had a whole village helping me - Liz Caplan, the amazing singing teacher, plus Lin’s musical team, Alex Lacamoire, Bill Sherman and Kurt Crowley and Lin himself.” Going all in, Garfield also learned to play piano.Īll the while he also had to overcome his fears that he might let Miranda and the team down, especially when singing in the same production as “thoroughbreds” such as Robin de Jesus and Vanessa Hudgens. “I put in the hours, on the breathing, working on my range,” he recalls. Garfield then dedicated a full year to vocal training before the shoot. He was an incredibly passionate rock singer… I think the key for me was this guy was singing as if it’s life and death, for him and his own life, and also for the lives of people like his friend, who was HIV-positive.” Garfield thought it could work if he was willing to put in the vocal training, and also because Larson himself was not “a highly trained, refined singer. Garfield recalls the director telling him, “If you’re not tone-deaf, I think you can get your voice to a place where you can be Jon.” After seeing Garfield perform on stage in Tony Kushner’s Angels In America, Miranda invited the actor for lunch and told him about Jonathan Larson and Tick, Tick… Boom!, Miranda’s adaptation of Larson’s one-man show about his struggles for success before creating the hit stage musical Rent. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was the one who inspired him to dust off that shelf. After that, I put my singing ambitions on the shelf.” “Later I failed miserably in my singing strand at drama school. “In the first play I did - just a kids’ community theatre production when I was 14 - we did Bugsy Malone, but I played Fat Sam, the one non-singing role,” he says. Before he made Tick, Tick… Boom!, Andrew Garfield was not much of a singer.
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