duvallon:

What about you, Daveed? What went into Jefferson, a person who had some disagreeable qualities, regardless of his relationship with Hamilton?
DD: My goal is you fall in love with him, then you feel really shitty that you did that. Because that’s part of what made him so successful. He was an incredibly smart inventor, and totally unafraid of doing new things and having new opinions. When you transition him onto the stage, you make him into this person who’s larger than life, someone people sort of have to fall in love with. But if they see the show again, they’ll realize that his entrance has him being wheeled around by his slaves on a staircase. That’s fucked up. The show doesn’t shy away from that.