It Won't Be Long Now: How In the Heights Finally Made the Leap From Stage to Screen
as Nina, the neighborhood girl who made it out of the neighborhood, to college at Stanford;as Sonny, Usnavi's unmotivated cousin. Seasoned stars of stage and screen such as, back as Abuela Claudia after playing the barrio matriarch for the entirety of the show's three-year Broadway run;, in the newly added role of Sonny's father, Mr. de la Vega, round out the ensemble.
"'Respect' sounds like too holy of a word," he explained, "but you can tell that the show really resonated with them...and there was a sense of pride on each of them about, 'My gosh, I get to do this' and 'My gosh, I get to sing these words and be in this movie and represent in this way.
Sherman admitted to E! News, "To take notes and things from a guy who you've never worked for, it was a very interesting process. But [Jon] was so confident—and I don't mean that as a negative thing—but he knew what he wanted and he was very specific with us, and he fought us when he wanted to, and we fought him. And it was a really fascinating sort of thing, but it all felt like we had known each other for years.
Lacamoire played his piano passages from home on his keyboard, files whizzing back and forth between him and the mixer in Los Angeles. "We would attend playbacks in the city and it was like the only times I left my house in the summer for awhile, to go to the studio and see other people," he said with a laugh. "It was very surreal in that sense.
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