I didn’t see that many opportunities for myself. I started writing musicals because I really wanted to be in musicals. Miranda: What you just said resonated with me. But the movie’s seismic impact lends her one more common bond with Miranda: Both now enjoy a future in which any artistic reinvention seems newly possible. Unlike her predecessors, Gaga had next to no big-screen experience. In 2018’s update of “A Star Is Born,” Gaga brought persona-erasing humility and full voice to a role previously inhabited by Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. He’s in the Oscar hunt this year for “Mary Poppins Returns,” the Disney sequel to which Miranda adds theater-kid vim.įellow New Yorker Lady Gaga shares Miranda’s knack for winning awards - she’s the recipient of a Golden Globe and six Grammys - and his theatrical brio. The impresario has won a Pulitzer and shared a Kennedy Center Honors designation for the stage bombshell “Hamilton” he’s also won an Emmy, three Tonys and three Grammys. For more, click here.įew artists have been decorated as frequently as Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lady Gaga and Lin-Manuel Miranda sat down for a chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors.
