"I am hovering above my body experiencing this, watching this happening," said Jak Malone on his Tony win for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical in Operation Mincemeat. In an exclusive interview with 半岛体育 just moments after he stepped off the stage for his acceptance speech, he declared this win for his younger self, who loved Broadway as passionately as any fan currently watching the broadcast at home, dreaming of being onstage themselves.
"There's been so many points during this insane amazing awards season where I've said to people, my 15 year old self is in the room. I watched Stephen Schwartz sing 'For Good' to Idina Menzel, and I was crying, and I said: 'you'll have to forgive me, my 15 year old self is in the room,' and I feel like that today," Malone said in the interview. Watch the full interview in the video above. "That's the age when I really just decided that Broadway was the tops, and that's when I was like, 'I endeavor to go there and find my joy,' and I feel like I have. So my 15 year old self is in the room. And if you told him I was going to win this, he would've believed you, because he was confident."
Operation Mincemeat is currently running at the John Golden Theatre.
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