Lin-Manuel Miranda was one one many celebrities who was contending for an element within the 2024 Depraved film however didn’t win it. You’d picture that the actor and songwriter’s affiliation with hit musicals like Hamilton, Moana, Mufasa: The Lion King, Mary Poppins Returns, Tick, Tick… Growth!, Encanto and others would grant him the freedom.
Nevertheless it seems director Jon M. Chu was strict about his casting. Talking to Selection, he revealed that the Hamilton star made “many calls” to him, pitching himself for a really particular position. Chu revealed that Miranda — whom he labored with within the 2021 musical In The Heights — needed to play the Munchkinland citizen.
The character who asks Glinda (Ariana Grande) of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), “Is it true you have been her good friend?,” to start with of the movie. The director defined that he needed to flip down his request as it could have been “too distracting.”
“Sorry, Lin!” he added. Miranda not solely made these calls but in addition tweeted Chu, asking him for the picular however small position within the musical. “WICKED MOVIE! FINALLY,” he wrote on X on the time.
He then requested Stephen Daldry who related to the movie within the early phases, asking if he might “play the man who goes, ‘Is it true you have been her FRIEND?!’” The position finally went to actress Kirsty Anne Shaw.
However, there was no laborious emotions between Chu and Miranda because the duo was snapped smiling collectively on the Nationwide Board of Evaluation Awards Gala in NYC earlier this month. Chu even gained greatest director for Depraved on the ceremony.
The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical featured Erivo and Grande within the lead. Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang and Keala Settle, spherical off the solid. Depraved was one of many greatest final blockbuster of final 12 months, gathering $709 million on the international field workplace.