JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The popular musical \u201cHamilton\u201d will be coming to the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts from December 1-13 as part of the FSCJ Artist Series Broadway in Jacksonville. I got the chance to talk with actor and Orlando-native Eddie Ortega, who plays Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, about being in the iconic show, how he got into acting, and how he manages to remember all of his lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019ve been playing the role for like, almost two and a half years, because I did it back in \u201823 until June \u201825 last year. So at this point, not nearly as difficult as it used to be when I started back in \u201823. Now it\u2019s different challenges of […] \u2018okay, I remember how I felt doing some things before\u2019 and now there\u2019s a little bit of freedom to free up some of those habits,\u201d said Ortega on the difficulty of playing Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in Hamilton. \u201cDifficult is not the word; it\u2019s more fun, honestly, at this point. You\u2019re catching me at a fun time. I feel like there\u2019s more openness with playing my own version of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison and not feeling 1. the pressure of how others have done it before or 2. even how I did it before. It\u2019s kind of a place of discovery right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear more of Eddie\u2019s acting journey, as well as his thoughts on driving in Orlando<\/a>, in the full interview.<\/p>\n Tickets to see Hamilton at the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n You can hear more interviews in the Chase Chats section<\/a> of WOKV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 The popular musical \u201cHamilton\u201d will be coming to the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,106182,106183,794,106184,28,29243,40554,106185,116,118,117,26760,795,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-239815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-artist-series","10":"tag-broadway-in-jacksonville","11":"tag-duval","12":"tag-eddie-ortega","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-fscj","15":"tag-hamilton","16":"tag-hercules-mulligan","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","19":"tag-jacksonville-news","20":"tag-james-madison","21":"tag-ne-florida","22":"tag-northeast-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}