Liz Caplan

The most tragic story.

So Jonathan Larson wrote this musical.

It was prior to Rent.

But they did it after Rent.

So he said, I got the rights to Tick, Tick, Boom.

I said, oh, that's so exciting.

And he said, and I'm going to direct it.

It's going to be my first feature.

And I said, that is amazing.

I said, who do you have in mind to play the Jonathan character?

And he said, me.

We're hoping to get Andrew Garfield.

And I said, oh, does he sing?

And all he said to me was, that's where you come in.

And so began me meeting Andrew and him having never sung a note in his entire life.

showing him how i mean this is a great story for anybody who would want to try to make sound in any way even if it's a to like yell or scream or bellow or let out a cry or a moan or anything but our first lesson was so filled with emotions i won't go into total detail but it was like let's just say it was like everything came out

And I had also a three year period where I worked to prepare him while he was doing film after film.

So he was on location in Europe and all around our country and all around the world.

And we'd always FaceTime and Zoom at different hours of the day or night.

And then we got to the filming of it.