Anthony Ramos attends the opening night premiere of 'In The Heights' during 2021 Tribeca Festival at United Palace Theater on June 09, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)
Ramos first read for that same role years earlier, things did not go as planned.
“I bombed that audition,” he revealed. “It was, like, horrible.” Before the movie landed in its current form at Warner Bros., it was in development with another studio; he found out later that the movie had moved to WB, and director Jon M. Chu was taking meetings. That meant he’d have another chance.
“I was like, yo, I hope they burned that audition tape,” he continues. “I hope someone burned that shit, and it’s somewhere deep down in the archives where no one can find it.”
Enjoy these photos of Anthony Ramos at the In the Heights premiere