This story about Daveed Diggs first appeared in the Limited Series & TV Movie issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
If the pandemic was supposed to be a period when film production slowed down and people had more time to take it easy, Daveed Diggs got it all wrong. Over the past year, he appeared on screen in the filmed version of “Hamilton,” in which he plays the Marquis de Lafayette in Act 1 and Thomas Jefferson in Act 2; he was seen in the first two seasons of the TNT series “Snowpiercer” and shot Season 3; he supplied the voice of Sebastian the crab for Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” and was also heard in Pixar’s “Soul”; and he made music with his experimental hip-hop group, clipping.
And then there’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the Showtime limited series in which Ethan Hawke plays 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and...
If the pandemic was supposed to be a period when film production slowed down and people had more time to take it easy, Daveed Diggs got it all wrong. Over the past year, he appeared on screen in the filmed version of “Hamilton,” in which he plays the Marquis de Lafayette in Act 1 and Thomas Jefferson in Act 2; he was seen in the first two seasons of the TNT series “Snowpiercer” and shot Season 3; he supplied the voice of Sebastian the crab for Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” and was also heard in Pixar’s “Soul”; and he made music with his experimental hip-hop group, clipping.
And then there’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the Showtime limited series in which Ethan Hawke plays 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and...
- 6/16/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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