With 19 years, being in his first year of university, he sat down to write a musical to open a hole in a jungle used to exclude minorities. Nine years later he walked In the Heights on Broadway and took four Tonys out of 13 nominations. It was just a glimpse of his talent in spurts. In 2015 he downloaded with a phenomenon of popular culture that continues to roar where he goes four years later, Hamilton , the work of rap, politics and history that has made him immortal.

His name is Lin-Manuel Miranda and he is 39, a Nuyorican winner of a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony, three other Grammy and one Emmy. This is a guy who has long since stopped worrying about not being given work. In fact, they have made so many offers in recent years that he blushes when he remembers some. "They are so ridiculous, that I am unable to mention them," he says in an interview with EL MUNDO from a Los Angeles hotel. Cheers, yes, for being part of The Dark Matter , the British fantasy adventure series that has just raised the curtain on HBO , with the Spanish-British Dafne Keen as the protagonist and James McAvoy and Ruth Wilson in the cast.

Miranda fits like a glove in an alternative world where humans have fellow animals baptized as daimonions , a kind of manifestations of the human soul gestated in the mind of a bestseller , Norwich writer Philip Pullman . Miranda, of dizzying speech and clear mind , grew obsessed with the three books in the series. Instead of going out for dinner or drinks with his wife, true reading binge sticks against each other, "which at the same time is romantic and strange."

This Puerto Rican who made Jack in The Return of Mary Poppins last year is Lee Scoresby in Dark Matter , a Texan aircraft of Danish descent whose daimonion is an Arctic free. "Scoresby is like the Han Solo of this franchise. It really makes no sense to be part of this story except for the fact that it is," he explains with a laugh. He shares that his character spends a lot of time alone and that his conversations with Hester, the hare, are very intense precisely because of that. "If you have ever seen me in the New York subway singing just because I am writing lyrics. The series is not far from my reality ."

He says that when he was called he was clear. "Then Mary Poppins was rolling," he recalls. "I said yes because it is an incredible team and because we have time, we will do a season for each book , and that is a luxury when you are dealing with one of your favorite series. They are things that do not happen to you a movie. I'm seeing it now with In the Heights . "

It refers to the film adaptation of his first musical. It will premiere next year directed by Jon M. Chu and produced by Miranda himself, a shoot he attended every day by subway. Hamilton's millions have not altered its essence. Yes they have given him freedom to explore other projects. "The good thing is that Hamilton is doing well without me and I think he will endure such a time," he analyzes. "I have the incredible privilege of being able to work on things that really excite me and not have to submit to papers to keep me financially. This has always been my life and suddenly this has been an important mental change ."

Among his projects is giving more opportunities to others like him. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for diversity. It's all I am. I started writing In the Heights because I didn't see a future for me in the musical theater. It didn't fit with any of the works out there . Now I'm trying to include the more people and variety possible in my works. "

Diversity and in Spanish? "It tempts me, the truth. The problem is that I'm insecure in that language because I grew up here. The only role I really had to speak a lot in Spanish was in 200 letters , an independent film, and I realized how tangled there is my Spanish, but I love it and I like to write in Spanish. It would take time to deepen. "

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