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Lin-Manuel Miranda knows he looks rather dashing onHis Dark Materials.
Its trying for the Clark Gable and failing.
The rest of his character-building came from a variety of places.
I thought about my grandfather a lot, actually, Miranda explained.
My grandfather was a big Westerns guy and he always had a dime-store Western in his pocket.
So I was just channeling the best of Gary Cooper and trying to grab all the best things.
That isthatscene from every Western.
Lee Scoresby is fuckin picking pockets until he meets Lyra.
Theres this instant kinship.
Instant kinship was also had off-camera.
It was [an] instant connection and inside jokes.
Unsurprisingly, a similar rapport was built on theLoganset with Keen and Hugh Jackman.
Shes like, On my last movie, I just sang with Hugh Jackman all the time!
I was like, Great, we can do that!
I know show tunes!
So a lot of show tunes and, like, Spanish.
But we connected very quickly.
Shes just so precocious and great.
