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Olga Merediz has been with
In The Heights since the beginning. Originating the role of Abuela Claudia in the show’s off-Broadway run way back in 2007, Merediz received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the show in 2008. She’s performed the character hundreds of times, and knows songs like “Pacienca y Fe” like the back of her hand. And yet, when it came time to bring
In The Heights to the big screen, the actress had to rethink her approach what she’d always done, figuring out how to grow even more within the constraints of the work. As she tells us in the video above, it was hardest during the filming of her parts of “Pacienca y Fe.”
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In a quietly moving interlude from “In the Heights,” Abuela Claudia (Olga Merediz), the beloved matriarch of a Washington Heights barrio, has a heart-to-heart with one of her many surrogate grandchildren. Nina Rosario (Leslie Grace), back home after a rough freshman year at Stanford, describes her sense of loneliness and alienation at a campus devoid of her usual community something Claudia, who immigrated to New York from Cuba in 1943, knows a thing or two about. Reminiscing about the beautiful gloves Nina’s late mother used to wear, concealing hands that were cracked from hours spent cleaning other people’s homes, Claudia says, “We had to assert our dignity in small ways … lit