Lin-Manuel Miranda operates just like tennis great Rafa Nadal
How much does he want that EGOT? Surely he’d kill for a shot at glory, Kimmel pressed at the top of their spot.
“It’s like stats,” Miranda explains. “When Rafa Nadal broke the record for most Opens, he wasn’t thinking about breaking the record. He was just thinking about, ‘there’s a ball coming at me very fast. And I have to hit the ball back.’ And that’s how I feel when I’m writing the tune. It’s like somebody throwing a ball at me.”Speaking of smashes, Kimmel also asked about the magical ingredients that went into “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.
Miranda had no idea it would be the global hit that it has become. “Group numbers are never the hit, you can’t sing them,” he explains. “It’s usually the ballad or the villain song of something else. The group numbers are the things that theater kids like and no one else likes, because they get to sing it at their cast party.”The ensemble song – by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast – logged several weeks at No.
Also, it’s the first original Disney release to hit No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, where it stayed for seven weeks., the pair talked Andrew Garfield, and reminisced about the crazy finale of the 2017 Oscars, which the talk show star hosted. Miranda also taped a sketch for the late-night show, promoting a “miracle cure” for those struggling under the constant rotation ofsongs, a “first of its kind pill,” dubbed Encantix. It’s like magic, just stick the pills in each ear canal.