Maria Friedman

Yeah, I'm going to write it down and copy it.

The same thing.

I don't know about you, but I have cried probably almost as much over joy and beauty and possibility.

So I say use it.

You know, if it comes because you're excited and you're sitting with your best friend and it's possible, I know I have welled up and teared up with pure joy and hope many times, a beautiful sunset, a moment where I'm sharing my

ecstasy with friends.

I don't mean that in the chemical sense.

But that will make me cry.

So if that's what Jonathan feels when he's feeling those things, let it happen.

Why not?

Maria, how did you cast Jonathan in the role of Frank?

By meeting him, we talked on a Zoom.

And then I took him to Steve Sondheim's house, who had already passed away.

Because I wanted Steve to be, I don't know, somehow part of the decision.

I wanted Steve to meet Jonathan properly.

And we sat and we talked in his house.

for ages um and then Jonathan drove me to my hotel and I got out the car just going well that's that then um it did mean that we all had to wait an enormous amount of time for him but I would do that 10 times over

How did you cast Daniel Radcliffe?

Did you have any idea that he sang?

Yes, I knew he sang.