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Anthony Ramos leans over to show me what’s on his phone screen: the bird’s eye Google Maps outline of Stoke-sub-Hamdon in Somerset. “Look at this s***,” he says, eagerly. It is, explains the star of Broadway’s Hamilton, his go-to place in the UK, somewhere he used to visit with his ex. There’s something more than a bit incongruous about imagining Ramos putting his feet up in a sleepy West Country village with a population of just 1,358. Just a year ago, he was the face of a $200m blockbuster (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts); now he’s back in another one, Twisters.
