Lin-Manuel Miranda pitched wearing a His Dark Materials mustache with Clark Gable as his inspiration

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“I pitched the mustache because I like the idea of sort of a Clark Gable-y way in,” Miranda said, humorously adding: “It’s sort of Cantinflas on my face. It’s trying for the Clark Gable and failing. And then as soon as I saw the costume and what (designer Caroline McCall) was going for, that was 90 percent of Lee, the badassery he wears.”