--- title: Young Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish 'Mary Poppins' description: Lin-Manuel Miranda the creator of 'Hamilton' will star as Jack, the lamplighter in the upcoming movie 'Mary Poppins Returns'. canonical: https://time.com/5472322/lin-manuel-miranda-mary-poppins-returns/ author: Lucy Feldman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-06T11:08:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:12:51.521Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Why Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish Watching 'Mary Poppins' as a Kid og:description: The 'Hamilton' creator talks 'Mary Poppins Returns', fatherhood and more og:url: https://time.com/5472322/lin-manuel-miranda-mary-poppins-returns/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c5671dc2964bc3/698940b0656a3f39a4bd6267/181217101012-web1.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1442 og:image:alt: 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish Watching 'Mary Poppins' as a Kid twitter:description: The 'Hamilton' creator talks 'Mary Poppins Returns', fatherhood and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9c5671dc2964bc3/698940b0656a3f39a4bd6267/181217101012-web1.jpg?branch=production ---  # Why Lin-Manuel Miranda Could Never Finish Watching _Mary Poppins_ as a Kid > Sponsored content. 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Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 16, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Mindy Small—Getty Images  by [Lucy Feldman](https://time.com/author/lucy-feldman/)  ## Lucy Feldman Editorial Director Dec 6, 2018 11:08 AM UTC _The creator of_ Hamilton _on dancing through_ Mary Poppins Returns_, raising boys and returning to the stage in Puerto Rico_ **Did you watch** **_Mary Poppins_** **as a kid?** I had the VHS cassette and loved the first two-thirds, but “Feed the Birds” would always make me too sad and then I would turn it off. **How did you step into your joyful character, Jack, a lamplighter?** My job in this film is to understand the childhood whimsy that Mary Poppins brings to every situation and to consider myself lucky to be along for the ride. I looked a lot at my own kids–my son has the most vivid imagination of anyone I’ve ever met. The other day I bought him a $5.99 fake Spider-Man phone, and it was an hour of him having fictional conversations and saving people. **Do you plan to rap in all your projects?** I don’t really think I rap in this movie. I think Dick Van Dyke’s bars in “Jolly Holiday” are way closer to contemporary hip-hop than what I’m doing. Everyone forgets he drops 16 bars about all the women he’s dated in the first movie. **Did you enjoy relocating to London for filming?** To finish the year I’d had performing in _Hamilton_, leave the country and start this weird new life with my wife and kids was really amazing. The day before we shot “Trip a Little Light Fantastic,” I brought my son to work. We rehearsed that entire eight-minute dance sequence as a continuous number, and he experienced Daddy surrounded by all those bikes and \[lamplighters\] doing that incredible dance in real time. The look on his face was one of the best moments of my life, full stop. **What has been the most surprising thing about fatherhood?** The thing that drives you craziest about your children is the thing that’s most similar to you. My son’s a picky eater–he’ll take a bite, then think for 20 minutes, while I’m sitting there steaming. I know I was just as bad. My parents laugh and laugh. **How do you think about raising boys in 2018?** The hardest job and yet the most worthwhile is to teach and model empathy to your children. **Hamilton has remained a sensation. Why does it have such staying power?** It makes you reckon with what you’re doing with your time on earth. When I read that book on Hamilton’s life, I remember thinking, I can’t believe he got all that done in such a short amount of time. In writing it, I got a little braver in stating what I want out of the world. I became a little more Hamilton and a little less Burr. **Why did you decide to reprise your role in Puerto Rico in January 2019?** I played Usnavi in _In the Heights_ in Puerto Rico, and it was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life as an actor. Then in the wake of Hurricane Maria, it became a very different thing: How can we leave the island better than we found it? We’re trying to raise $15 million for arts organizations and artists on the island, and also really prioritize residents of the island seeing it. **You’ve been outspoken about the politics surrounding Maria since it hit. Now that a year has passed, what are your thoughts?** In a weekend where everyone who had family or friends on the island was having trouble reaching them, our President was tweeting about football. I’ll never forget that. I don’t think history will ever forget that. **Would you ever write about President Trump?** You have to love what you’re writing about. Do you want to go to a musical about that? I don’t. **You’re sincere in a sarcastic world. Do you ever stoop to cynicism?** I can be as snarky and cynical as the next person. However, we get to choose what we put out into the world. I try to put out what I would like back. 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