Daveed Diggs Does All The Things

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Daveed Diggs says starring in the hit musical Hamilton opened a lot of doors for him. One of those doors? Meeting hip hop legend Busta Rhymes. “Like, I can text Busta Rhymes right now. That? That is a crazy thing to me.” Diggs stopped by WBEZ to talk with Greta about his first feature film, Wonder, out in theaters Friday. They also talk about Hamilton, his ABC TV series The Mayor, and his rap group Clipping.

Note: In the audio of this week’s episode, we state that a groundnut is “an acorn that has fallen.” This statement is actually quite false.

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0:35.9	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:36.9	And I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:39.1	And this week, our guest is Davy Diggs. You may know him as that one guy who played the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway cast recording and presentation and performance of Hamilton.
0:51.2	So what did I miss? What did I miss?
0:57.2	Virginia, my home sweet home, I want to give you a kiss.
1:02.1	I've been in Paris meeting lines at every ladies.
1:05.1	I guess I basically missed the late 80s.
1:08.1	Yeah, so I've listened to him do that thing.
1:10.6	Oh, my God.
1:11.6	How many times?
1:13.2	You think a million, though?
1:14.4	I mean, coming up on it.
1:15.9	At least several hundred thousand.
1:17.1	You round it to the nearest whole number, a million.
1:19.8	David also has a rap group called Clipping, and he's the executive producer of a new show on ABC called The Mayor.
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