00:00I used to live in London until the end of March
00:06And I know very well the feeling when you are on sick
00:09But as well you don't know actually what is your home
00:13And this is a movie that tells us the story about a small community in New York
00:18But everybody can relate with them
00:20And I think this is the power of the movie
00:22I really love that
00:24What do you think about it?
00:26I mean this is that's one thing that music does so powerfully
00:30It's a universal language
00:31It's open to all of us and invites us all in
00:34Lynn's score is so uplifting
00:37It makes you want to move
00:39It's so rhythmic
00:40I think that's a big secret to why people from around the world
00:45Have connected with it as a musical
00:46And hopefully will as a film too
00:48I think well I think when you make a musical about home
00:52Home means a lot of things to different people
00:54And we try to explore that in as many ways as possible
00:58Whether it's through the songs and characters who maybe came here from somewhere else
01:03And have tried to make a life here
01:05To I think of Chiara's beautiful dialogue in the scenes
01:09I felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches I left behind
01:13As Abuela says to Nina
01:16So you know I think that's one of the central questions of our movie
01:20Is what do we take with us from where we're from?
01:23And there is a turning point inside the movie with a blackout
01:26Why did you decide to put the blackout inside to do this sense of the movie?
01:33Oh I experienced a real one in 1999 when I was home from college for the summer
01:38And there was this sort of famous blackout in New York
01:42That really only affected upper Manhattan and the Bronx
01:45I remember that very viscerally
01:46And so that was sort of the inspiring incident for putting it into the show
01:52I love all the reference inside the movie
01:55Like Lord of the Ring, Star Wars
01:58Which one is your favorite?
02:01It's really interesting you say that
02:03Because again with hip-hop
02:05It can get very dated very quickly
02:07If you're making a reference that people aren't going to understand
02:10So I had a hundred year rule with any references I was making in the songs
02:14It's got to be something we're still talking about in a hundred years
02:17So that's why it's like Wizard of Oz
02:19It's a Wonderful Life
02:20Star Wars
02:22I wanted them to be references that would still
02:25Even though that song was written in 2005
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