TODAY was on the red carpet for the first in-person movie premiere since the famed TCL Chinese Theatre reopened in Hollywood.
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Leslie Grace plays Nina, who leaves Washington Heights for college but returns and reconnects with Benny, played by Corey Hawkins.“And that is, I think, at the heart of what we all hoped,” she said. “We get to all experience our wildest dreams and be our ancestors’ wildest dreams.” “Everyone’s chanting ‘Lin’ and he’s like bawling,” Chu said, adding that it was a pivotal moment for Miranda to see the young cast members looking up at him. “When he didn’t have a role for , he made it … and here we are, making a movie.Based on his musical, the "In the Heights" movie also features Lin-Manuel Miranda as Piragüero, also known as the "Piragua guy."Grace added that the summer they spent in production had changed all their lives.
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