Andrew Garfield was spotted looking over his lines with his director Lin-Manuel Miranda during the first shoot day of their new film in New York on Tuesday.
The dynamic duo have teamed up for Tick, Tick… Boom, adapted from a semi-autobiographical stage musical by Jonathan Larson of Rent fame.
Lin-Manuel, 40, who shot to international fame by writing and starring in the Broadway show Hamilton, had a chat with his leading man between takes.
Working hard: Andrew Garfield was spotted looking over his lines with his director Lin-Manuel Miranda during the first shoot day of their new film in New York on Tuesday
The scene he was shooting appeared to be an emotional one as at one point Andrew could be seen with a hand over his eyes.
At another point he also raised his left hand to his mouth, though it was unclear if his character was coughing or yawning.
It appeared the The Social Network actor had a touch of the sniffles, as he was glimpsed between takes blowing his nose.
Andrew was in full costume as the aptly named Jon who is striving toward his dream of being a Broadway composer but is spinning his wheels.
Ready to go: Lin-Manuel, 40, who shot to international fame by writing and starring in the Broadway show Hamilton, had a chat with his leading man between takes
Fraught: The scene he was shooting appeared to be an emotional one as at one point Andrew could be seen with a hand over his eyes
His starving artist look included a green knit scarf and a bright blue sweater thrown over a pink tee to ward off the cold.
The Amazing Spider-Man star was wearing ear buds connected to an iPhone, suggesting that the movie will be set in the present, unlike the show set in 1990.
Meanwhile, Lin-Manuel was film festival chic for his turn as director, accessorizing with a checked charcoal coat, cherry red scarf and blue knit cap.
Tick, Tick… Boom! is Lin-Manuel’s first turn at film directing since the 1996 comedy Clayton’s Friends, which was only 59 minutes long.
On the move: At another point he also raised his left hand to his mouth, though it was unclear if his character was coughing or yawning
‘Tis the season: It appeared the The Social Network actor had a touch of the sniffles, as he was glimpsed between takes blowing his nose
Jonathan wrote Tick, Tick… Boom! and performed it as an off-off Broadway one-man show in 1990, years before Rent made him famous.
In the musical, the leading man Jon faces a personal crisis as he considers getting out of show business and leading a stable life.
The real Jonathan Larson eventually earned his place in musical theater history with the smash 1996 show Rent – but did not live to see his success.
He died aged 35 of an undiagnosed aortic dissection the morning of Rent’s first off-Broadway preview in January 1996.
Premise: Andrew was in full costume as the aptly named Jon who is striving toward his dream of being a Broadway composer but is spinning his wheels
Layered up: His starving artist look included a green knit scarf and a bright blue sweater thrown over a pink tee to ward off the cold
Details: The Amazing Spider-Man star was wearing ear buds connected to an iPhone, suggesting that the movie will be set in the present, unlike the show set in 1990
Later that year, the show opened on Broadway and was a massive triumph, earning Jonathan a posthumous Pulitzer Prize For Drama among other honors.
A half-decade later Tick, Tick…Boom! was reworked into an off-Broadway piece with three actors, each playing multiple characters.
Lin-Manuel’s movie cast – which includes Vanessa Hudgens, Robin De Jesus and Alexandra Shipp – will play one character apiece.
Vanessa earned praise in January 2019 by playing the scene-stealing role of Maureen in a FOX televised production of Rent.
Meanwhile: Lin-Manuel was film festival chic for his turn as director, accessorizing with a checked charcoal coat, cherry red scarf and blue knit cap
Return: Tick, Tick… Boom! is Lin-Manuel’s first turn at film directing since the 1996 comedy Clayton’s Friends, which was only 59 minutes long
Iconic stage songwriter Stephen Sondheim, who had a Broadway theater renamed after him in 2010, is depicted in Tick, Tick…Boom! as someone Jon idolizes.
The score also contains a song called Sunday about Jon’s job in a diner, a spoof of the song of the same name from Stephen’s show Sunday In The Park With George.
Lin-Manuel has worked with Stephen before – he and his father Luis translated some of Stephen’s West Side Story lyrics into Spanish for a bilingual revival.
However rather than casting Stephen to play himself in the movie, Lin-Manuel has selected Bradley Whitford, who won an Emmy as Josh Lyman on The West Wing.
Realism: Lin-Manuel’s movie cast – which includes Vanessa Hudgens, Robin De Jesus and Alexandra Shipp – will play one character apiece unlike in the three-hander show
Weighing his options: In the show, the leading man Jon faces a personal crisis as he considers getting out of show business and leading a stable life