Hey, it's Lin-Manuel Miranda
from the new Netflix movie Vivo
and this is my Screen Test.
The movie you saw way too young.
I saw The Warriors when I was three years old,
I was at my friend's house.
I can still hear him with the bottles in my head.
“Come out and play!”
I also saw A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
when I was seven,
my grandfather had a video store,
Miranda Video in Puerto Rico
so I saw all the horror movies
when I was like seven or eight years old,
so there's a part of me inside that's always broken.
The movie you tell people
is your favorite movie
versus the movie that is
actually your favorite movie.
They're actually the same,
I don't have like a guilty pleasure movie I watch.
My favorite movie is Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa.
Every year I try to make more and more people watch it.
A couple of years ago I took my nephews
who were 15, 13 and 11 at the time.
I said, okay, this movie is three hours and change,
it's in black and white and it's in Japanese,
but I swear it's the best movie ever made.
And they really got into it,
it was tough going the first half hour,
but then they were with me.
That's my favorite movie, Seven Samurai.
The movie you quote most frequently
in everyday conversation.
It depends who I'm talking to, right?
If I'm talking to my kids, it's probably Vivo and Moana.
It's a lot of “My Own Drum” and “You're Welcome,”
but if I'm talking to anybody else,
Godfather is a pretty popular one.
“Why don't you tell that girl you love her, Michael?”
Another one is Almost Famous.
“I have to go home, you are home.”
The movie that would
make an amazing musical.
I can't tell you,
'cause I want to make it into a musical,
but I know what it is
and you'll find out in like 10 years.
Your parents' favorite movie,
if you had to guess.
I can tell you my father's favorite movie
is The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds
and then my mother's favorite movie is
whatever the saddest movie is.
It was Schindler's List when Schindler's List came out.
My dad took me to every action movie and every musical
and my mom took me to every drama
and that's how you get me
and the stuff I make.
They will make you sing and dance and laugh
and then I'm gonna really make you cry at the end.
The movie musical you quote
most frequently.
Am I allowed to say musicals I wrote
because In The Heights
is getting a lot of play this summer.
There's a lot of
“No Me Diga,”
there's a lot of “Blackout, Blackout”
with the weather we're having.
Yes, In The Heights is very much speaking.
It's probably In The Heights right now,
but with my dad who is the world's
largest Greatest Showman stan it's Greatest Showman.
♪ Why don't we rewrite the stars ♪
The movie character you most
wanted to be like growing up.
My favorite musical growing up was The Little Mermaid,
I related the most to Sebastian the crab.
He didn't sign up for this,
he was the court composer,
he's supposed to be writing symphonies,
now he's babysitting this kid who doesn't want to be there.
Even at nine years of age, I related to that.
The most iconic movie choreography.
That's a really tough one.
The first thing that popped to mind of course is
West Side Story.
I said it and you pictured Bernardo with his leg out, right?
Singin' in the Rain,
Moses Supposes, pretty much any sequence
from Singin' in the Rain,
“Make 'Em Laugh” something I put on if my kids
like hurt themselves, like if they hit their head or,
and they just need some time to recover,
I put on, “Make 'Em Laugh” like that's like a go-to
parenting number.
So yeah, pretty much any number from Singin' in the Rain
and West Side Story are the big ones for me.
A random fact you only
learned because of a movie.
Everything I know I learned from movies.
I'm having trouble thinking of something I didn't learn
from a movie.
I'm coming up empty.
It's all I know.
Classic movie you're embarrassed
to admit you've never seen.
There's a lot of them
and usually it's just running time that keeps me out.
I've never seen Ben-Hur, never seen Cleopatra.
I’ve never seen Dr. Zhivago,
all the long ones that my mother loves
and is still like, “How have you not seen?”
Yeah, we fight about it every Christmas.
The movie you always watch
when you're sick.
Little Mermaid's a go-to,
but I like Almost Famous. That movie’s like a long warm hug.
When I was little, the only two VHS cassettes we owned
were Ghostbusters and The Breakfast Club.
Those are like, I could just put 'em on
and speak alongside them.
Those are, those are all comfort foods.
Be sure to check out Vivo only on Netflix.