Our house was filled with my father’s artist friends, an amazingly wonderful group of people. We lived in a tenement on 29th Street and Second Avenue, an apartment with a bathtub in the kitchen. My dad was a playwright and my mom was a dancer, very similar to Jon and Susan in this story. I started reading the script, and page after page after page, I felt like these could be scenes out of my childhood. ![]() The Film Stage: How did you and Lin-Manuel Miranda get together on this project?Īlice Brooks: The Friday we wrapped In the Heights, I got a call from my agent saying Lin wants you to read the script he’s directing. Please note this interview contains significant spoilers about the number “Sunday.” Netflix released this statement: “Lin and the creative team want musical superfans to watch without being ‘spoiled’ on all of the surprises in that scene.” Therefore, one can read at your own risk. Andrew Garfield plays Larson, who would gain posthumous acclaim for Rent. Reuniting with Miranda after In the Heights, cinematographer Alice Brooks––who is currently working on the film adaptation of Wicked––spoke with The Film Stage at the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival in Toruń, Poland. ![]() Marking Lin-Manuel Miranda’s screen directing debut, tick, tick…BOOM! follows composer Jonathan Larson as he struggles to stage a musical show despite the overwhelming pressures of day-to-day life.
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