Christopher Jackson

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In which John Heilemann talks with Christopher Jackson, the Tony award-nominated and Grammy and Emmy award-winning actor, singer, musician, and composer best known for playing George Washington in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Heilemann and Jackson discuss his journey from growing up in Cairo, Illinois to becoming a bona fide theater and television star; how the traumas of Covid-19 and the post-George Floyd racial reckoning impacted the creative community; how Broadway is faring as it prepares for its long-awaited reopening in September; how Hamilton reflected the political zeitgeist of the Obama era but remains relevant today, and how it felt to perform at the White House for the first Black president; and his pride at seeing the hit Broadway musical In the Heights, in which he played a key role (Benny), turned into a splashy Hollywood film that is among the first to be widely released in movie theaters in the wake of the pandemic. Jackson also discusses his relationship with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the genius behind both In The Heights and Hamilton, and why their friendship is one of the most important in his life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyalman here and welcome to Hell in High Water, my podcast from the
0:18.5	recount and I Heart Radio, with big ups to the one and only Rizza for our dope theme
0:22.7	music.
0:23.7	You may recall a couple of weeks ago when we had Will Leachon to talk about his new
0:27.0	novel How Lucky, I made a big deal out of the fact that Summer was almost here and how
0:31.5	excited people are about that because things are starting to feel kinda sorta semi-hemmed
0:36.6	demy normal again.
0:38.5	While that feeling that Summer is here is even more pronounced now, after a weekend where
0:42.6	a lot of the country saw temperatures in the 90s and the signs of a return to cultural
0:46.8	normalcy are popping up all over the place.
0:50.0	The NBA playoff arenas are packed with fans.
0:52.7	Usually baseball stadiums are on the cusp of reopening to full capacity, concert venues
0:57.1	and clubs are coming back online, and then there's movie theaters getting back in business.
1:03.1	Promising return to the sublime pleasure that comes from sitting in the air-conditioned
1:06.9	darkness on a hot summer day or night and enjoying a brand new first run feature film
1:12.1	on a big screen with a booming sound system after smoking a massive fatty get your head
1:18.3	in the right place to watch the flick.
1:19.9	And come on, that is the shit.
1:23.3	Right?
1:24.3	Okay, so stick with me here.
1:25.5	The movie that I'm planning to see from my first trip back into a theater is Lin-Man
1:29.5	Well Miranda's In The Heights, which opens in theaters this coming Friday June 11.
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