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Knowing nothing about it, Fried went to see what all the fuss was about.
That one performance would come to alter the course of his work for the next decade and a half.
“I was just blown away,” Fried tells EW of that first experience.
“Nobody much was interested in that project at the time,” says Fried.
I remember leaving the theater that night and I called my mom.
What do I do?'
She said, ‘You do what you do: You tell their story.'"
For the next few years, Fried did just that, documenting Miranda and Kail bringingIn the Heightsto Broadway.
“He just looked at me simply and said, ‘Should we finish our movie?'”
“That’s why Tommy Kail is a magical guy because that was an amazing gift.
And it is; we’ve finished our movie and I’m so glad we did.
I’m so proud of it.”
It was time for Fried to dig through his box of video footage from over the years.
“Our movie is about friendship over time.
They have to grow, they have to evolve, they have to change over time.
To see that expressed in its current form is what I’m hoping people take from this.
Our movie is about creativity and the connection with each other and with an audience.
We Are Freestyle Love Supremearrives on Hulu, Friday, July 17.
