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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