“You can’t control how the world gets something,” Miranda said of the backlash from some regarding the film adaptation of In the Heights .

Lin-Manuel Miranda addresses his critics and clarifies what he thinks about the “culture of cancellation.”

In a new profile for The New Yorker, the 41-year-old Tony winner was asked about the strong criticism his film adaptation of In the Heights received for lacking Afro-Latino representation.

“Once something is successful, you are no longer the loser trying to make things happen,” Miranda said when the controversy was raised. “You have to graduate beyond the ‘it’s a miracle I have something on stage’ mentality. Because now that’s expected of me. And people say, ‘Yeah, but what about this? And what about this?’ And that’s fair! [I] do that with art that I find lacking.”

He continued: “It’s not a cancellation. That’s called having opinions. So I try to take it in that spirit.

Miranda, who has now directed the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical Tick, Tick… ​​Boom , added: “At the end of the day, you can’t control how the world receives something. All you can control is what your intentions are.”

In June, Miranda apologized for the colorism accusations in a tweet after the launch of In the Height , writing in part: “I can hear in the comments, the pain and frustration over colorism, of the feeling of invisibility. I have heard that without sufficient representation of dark-skinned Afro-Latinos, it is felt that the work does not fit the actual composition of the community that we wanted to represent with pride and joy. ”

“I’m so sorry,” he wrote. “I am learning from the comments, I thank you for raising them and I am listening. I am trying to keep a space for the incredible pride in the film we made, but also to be held accountable for our shortcomings. Thank you for the honesty of your comments. I promise to do so. best in my future endeavors, and I am dedicated to the learning and evolution that we all need to do to make sure we are honoring our diverse and vibrant community. Always, LMM. ”

Tick, Tick… ​​Boom! was written by Larson in 1990 and follows an aspiring songwriter named Jon (Andrew Garfield) in New York City as he fears he made the wrong career decision to be an artist.

Larson is best known as the creator of Rent . He died on January 25, 1996, at the age of 35, on the morning of the first trailer for the off-Broadway musical.

For his work on Rent , Larson was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony Awards for best musical, best book of a musical, and best original score.

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