Lin-Manuel Miranda never watched 'Mary Poppins' all the way through until he was an adult
The 38-year-old actor - who portrays Jack in the highly-anticipated upcoming sequel 'Mary Poppins Returns' - was too overcome with emotion when Dame Julie Andrews, who portrayed the magical nanny, sang 'Feed the Birds' midway through the film and couldn't bring himself to keep watching
1 December 2018
He admitted: "I couldn't get through 'Feed the Birds.'
"I was very sensitive to minor-key music, and that song was so sad that I don't think I saw the ending of Mary Poppins until I was grown, because I would just cry.
"I loved 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' I loved Dick Van Dyke. I loved the whole movie but then that one song was so sad I kind of never survived it."
And the 'Hamilton' creator - who has sons Sebastian, four, and Francisco, nine months, with wife Vanessa Nadal - admitted that wasn't the only song that evoked an extreme emotional reaction when he was young.
He told the new issue of America's Vanity Fair magazine: "My family had so many stories about that, about how Stevie Wonder's 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' would come on and they'd have to change the channel because I would burst into tears.
"You know what? I actually remember the feeling. I remember it was so many 'nos' in the lyrics. 'No New Year's Day to celebrate'- it felt apocalyptic to me as a little kid. 'No songs to sing' - I was like, 'Turn it off!' I was very sensitive.
"'Bridge Over Troubled Water' apparently just laid me out when I was an infant. My parents have all kinds of stories like that."
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