>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY!
WE'RE BACK WITH THE STAR OF THE NEW MOVIE "TICK TICK BOOM,"
ANDREW GARFIELD.
THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU WERE
CAST IN THE NEW FILM TICK TICK BOOM DIRECTED BY LIN-MANUEL
MIRANDA, AND YOU HAVE TO SING, BUT YOU'RE NOT A SINGER, AND YOU
WERE UNPREPARED AND A FRIEND TOD LIN, HOE, HE HAS THE VOICE
OF AN ANGEL, AND THEY CAST YOU AND THEY SAID YOU HAVE TO DO IT.
WHAT WAS IT FINALLY LIKE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SING THE SONGS?
WAS IT IN FRONT OF LIN OR A READ THRU?
>> LIN IS AMAZING BECAUSE HE'S THE KIND OF PERSON WHO CAN SEE
YOU BETTER THAN YOURSELF.
SO HE'D SEEN TO ME IN "ANGELS IN AMERICA" AND SAID I THINK YOU
CAN SING.
AND I SAID, I THINK YOU MIGHT BE WRONG.
HE SAID, TRUST ME, WHOEVER GAVE YOU AN IDEA YOU COULDN'T DO
THINGS, I NEED TO HAVE A STERN WORD FOR HIM.
HE WAS A CARING, STERN MENTOR.
AND HE GAVE ME TIME WITH LIZ, WHO WAS AN AMAZING SINGING COACH
AND SHE GAVE ME THE CONFIDENCE TO START DOING IT.
I WAS A MONTH OR SO INTO MY PREPARATION AND I WAS SINGING
WITH ANOTHER PERSON, KURT CROWLEY AT THE PIANO, WORKING ON
THE FIRST NUMBER IN THE FILM IN PRIVATE, BECAUSE I WAS, LIKE, NO
ONE COME IN BECAUSE THIS IS ME NAKED IN HERE VOCALLY.
NOT LITERALLY, I WASN'T SINGING NAKED.
BUT -- YOU HAVE BEEN.
BUT IT WOULD HAVE MAYBE HELPED.
>> Stephen: IT'S THEATER.
IT'S THE THEATER COMMUNITY, BABY, YOU KNOW HOW WE DO IT.
AND LIN HAD SNUCK IN, IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM.
THE BASTARD.
AND THE FIRST THING I KNEW WAS THAT HE WAS THERE WAS HIS SHOE
FLEW ACROSS MY FACE WHILE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRST
PHRASE OF THIS SONG, AND I LOOKED AROUND AND IT WAS HIM
LOOKING AT MY ANGRILY, HAPPILY, AND SAID, ANDREW GARFIELD, YOU
CAN SING!
I DON'T HAVE TO RECAST YOU!
( LAUGHTER ) AND HE WAS SO RELIEVED, AND IT
WAS THE SHOE OF BLISS, AND THAT WAS THAT, WE WERE KIND OF OFF TO
THE RACES FROM THERE.
>> Stephen: THESE SONGS ARE NOT EASY THAT YOU DO IN THIS.
YOU HAVE ONE SONG WE HAVE TO QUICKLYISHING -- THE NAME'S 14
ROOMMATES THE CHARACTER HAD?
>> YES.
HE WAS IN AN ARTIST'S APARTMENT AND HE HAD A CAROUSEL OF
ROOMMATES THAT WOULD COME THROUGH AND IT WAS JUST LIKE 14
PEOPLE IN JUST FOUR YEARS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS WHEN
YOU'RE A KID TRYING TO MAKE IT IN THE BIG CITY.
SO, YEAH, HE LISTS THE NAME OF AS MANY ROOMMATES AS HE CAN
REMEMBER IN THE MOMENT.
>> Stephen: CAN YOU STILL DO IT?
>> OH, COME ON.
( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: I MEAN, THAT'S A
NO, I GUESS.
( CHEERING ) >> Stephen: I'M JUST SAYING,
I'M JUST SAYING I BET YOUR BROTHER COULD DO IT.
>> OOOH-AAAA!
THAT'S THE BIG BABY KING WOULD NAIL THIS, I KNOW, AND DAD'S
WATCHING.
>> Stephen: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
>> BREATHE AND I NEED EVERYONE TO DO THIS AND FOLLOW MY LEAD.
JONATHAN CAROLYN AND CARRY, DAVIDSON, TIM WAS GUEST FROM
JUNE TO JANUARY.
ELSA THE BILL CORRECT ER'S TREATMENT WHO STILL IS ON THE
LAND.
DEPARTMENT FORGET THE NEIGHBORS, MICHELLE AND GAY, MORE LIKE THE
FAMILY THAN THE FAMILY.
THIS IS THE LIFE, BOBO BOBO BOBO BO -- BOHEMIA!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( PIANO RIFF )
>> Stephen: LARSON HIMSELF, YOU KNOW, WHILE HIS MUICALS ARE
BELOVED, DIDN'T LIVE, UNFORTUNATELY, TO SEE THE
SUCCESS, AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, HIS -- THE FILM WAS
DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY.
I KNOW THAT YOU YOURSELF HAVE SUFFERED GREAT GRIEF JUST
RECENTLY WITH THE LOSS OF YOUR MOTHER AND I'M SORRY FOR YOUR
FAMILY'S LOSS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: AND I'M WONDERING HOW DOING THIS SHOW OR ANY SHOW,
HOW ART ITSELF HELPS YOU DEAL WITH GRIEF.
>> YEAH, MMM -- I LOVE TALKING ABOUT IT, BY THE WAY, SO IF I
CRY, IT'S ONLY LIKE -- IT'S ONLY A BEAUTIFUL THING.
THIS IS ALL THE UNEXPRESSED LOVE, RIGHT, THE GRIEF THAT WILL
REMAIN WITH US, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE PASS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T -- WE
NEVER GET ENOUGH TIME WITH EACH OTHER, RIGHT?
NO MATTER IF SOMEONE LIVES TILL 60, 15 OR 99.
I HOPE THIS GRIEF STAYS WITH ME BECAUSE IT'S THE UNEXPRESSED
LOVE THAT I NEVER GOT TO TELL HER.
WE ALL TOLD HER EVERY DAY, SHE WAS THE BEST OF US.
SO, FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I WAS ABLE TO STEP INTO THIS IN A WAY WHERE
I COULD HONOR THIS INCREDIBLE LIFE OF JONATHAN LARSON.
HE DIED AT AGE 35 ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRST PREVIEW OF RENT OFF
BROADWAY IN THE NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP, SOME STRANGE TWIST OF
FATE HE WAS TAKEN THAT SOON.
THE FILM IS TO DO WITH THE TICKING CLOCK THAT WE ALL HAVE
THAT WE ALL KNOW SOMEWHERE DEEP DOWN THAT LIFE IS SACRED, SHORT,
AND WE BETTER BE HERE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH EACH OTHER HOLDING
ON TO EACH OTHER.
AND FOR ME, I GOT TO SING JONATHAN LARSON'S UNFINISHED
SONG WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SINGING FOR MY MOTHER AND HER
UNFINISHED SONG, AND I'M INDEBTED TO JOHN, AND I'M
INDEBTED TO LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA.
I'M INDEBTED TO EVERYONE WHO'S BROUGHT ME TO THIS PLACE SO I
CAN HONOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PERSON THAT I'VE EVER
EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE THROUGH MY ART AND USE IT AS A WAY TO
HEAL, USE IT AS A WAY TO SEW UP THE WOUNDS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
WE DO.
THAT'S WHAT YOU DO EVERY NIGHT, YOU SEW UP OUR WOUNDS.
YOU SEW UP OUR WOUNDS.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) AND BOTH JOHN AND MY MOTHER WERE
ARTISTS AND THEY WERE WARRIORS FOR ART, THEY KNEW THE POWER OF
ART AND THE POWER OF LEAVING THE WORLD IN A SLIGHTLY MORE
BEAUTIFUL STATE THAN WHEN THEY FOUND IT.
SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT HER AND THANK YOU FOR
LETTING ME TALK ABOUT HER WITH MY TWO GUYS UP THERE AS WELL.
SO THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: "TICK TICK BOOM"
IS AVAILABLE IN THEATERS AND ON NETFLIX.
ANDREW GARFIELD, EVERYBODY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH CHEF JOSÉ ANDRÉS!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( BAND PLAYING )