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Robin de Jesús Talks Homophobia on Screen in ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’

Robin de Jesús discusses working on tick, tick... BOOM! with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Actor Robin de Jesús, who plays Michael in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick… BOOM!, discusses getting Miranda’s call, collaborating with the ensemble cast, and confronting the homophobia that surfaces when two men share intimacy on screen.

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