VIDEO: HAMILTON's Taran Killam Talks Playing King George III: 'You Literally Can't Fail in That Role'

Taran Killam is currently making his Broadway debut as King George III in HAMILTON. The SNL alum stopped by last night's LATE SHOW to explain how his costume is the biggest challenge of the role. "It stinks. It's so heavy, and you're in heels, and for the first song you have a giant velvet cape that is literally swaying you to and fro like a tossed ship, so it's impossible to just walk in a straight line!" Watch the appearance below!

Taran Killam made his Broadway debut as Hamilton's King George III on January 17th. Last summer Killam co-starred in Encores Off Center production of Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello) with Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal. Killam was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" for six years and has been seen in the films The Heat, Brother Nature and 12 Years a Slave. He recently wrapped his feature directorial debut Why We're Killing Gunther, an action comedy that Killam wrote and also stars in with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, music direction/orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The musical won eleven 2016 TONY AWARDS including Best Musical, Score, Book of a Musical, Direction of a Musical, Choreography and Orchestrations. Mr. Miranda received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hamilton.

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