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How In the Heights’ Breakout Star Leslie Grace Used Her Nerves On Set To Her Advantage · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Leslie Grace plays Nina,
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Speaker 1: one of the pivotal lead roles in the upcoming movie
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Speaker 1: In the Heights, based on lin Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway
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Speaker 1: musical and Where It Is. She may be the breakout
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Speaker 1: start of the film. It's her biggest role by far,
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Speaker 1: one that scared her quite a bit and took her
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Speaker 1: far out of her comfort zone, but she channeled all
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Speaker 1: of that into her performance because her character, Nina struggles
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Speaker 1: with similar emotional worries and fears attending Stanford on scholarship,
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Speaker 1: Leslie tells et, I talk a lot about imposter syndrome
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Speaker 1: and much of what Nina feels when she goes to Stanford.
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Speaker 1: I knew from the very beginning that I'd be feeling
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Speaker 1: all of that. But the beautiful part was that I
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Speaker 1: was enveloped and surrounded by an immense amount of generosity
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Speaker 1: and knowledge on set. I knew, at the very least
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Speaker 1: just being there would be such a beautiful school to
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Speaker 1: sit on set when I wasn't needed to see the
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Speaker 1: cast and crew just be brilliant. I soaked it up
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Speaker 1: a lot of talent there in the Heights, in theaters
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Speaker 1: and on HBO Max for thirty one days starting June ten.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood