TMC
06-16-2021, 11:29 PM
https://www.justjared.com/2021/06/16/jimmy-smits-auditioned-for-in-the-heights-with-a-singing-clip-from-nypd-blue/
“We were scrambling putting together little video clips of me singing 'Duke of Earl' with Dennis Franz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rucyQXNuIhY) in the squad car or a little song flourish in West Wing,” Smits tells USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/entertainment/movies/2021/06/12/in-heights-had-jimmy-smits-reaching-nypd-blue-song-scenes/7647858002/). “It wasn’t heavy lifting on the musical thing. But I still had to kind of convince them that I could do it.”
“We were scrambling putting together little video clips of me singing 'Duke of Earl' with Dennis Franz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rucyQXNuIhY) in the squad car or a little song flourish in West Wing,” Smits tells USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/entertainment/movies/2021/06/12/in-heights-had-jimmy-smits-reaching-nypd-blue-song-scenes/7647858002/). “It wasn’t heavy lifting on the musical thing. But I still had to kind of convince them that I could do it.”