Daveed Diggs Does All The Things
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K 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.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:17.2 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Greta Johnson and I'm Tricia Bobita and this week our guest is Davy Diggs. |
| 0:24.0 | You may know him as that one guy who played the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the |
| 0:29.0 | original Broadway cast recording and presentation and performance of Hamilton. |
| 0:35.0 | So what did I miss? What did I miss? |
| 0:40.0 | Virginia, my home sweet home, I want to give you a kiss. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm going to give you a kiss. I've been in Paris meeting lights at every ladies. |
| 0:49.0 | I guess I basically miss the late 80s. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, so I've listened to him do that thing. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh my God, one million times. |
| 0:57.0 | You think a million though? |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, coming up on it. |
| 1:00.0 | At least several hundred thousand. |
| 1:01.0 | You round it to the nearest whole number a million. |
| 1:04.0 | David also has a rap group called Clipping |
| 1:07.0 | and he's the executive producer of a new show on ABC called The Mayor. |
| 1:11.0 | It is excellent. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, David is everywhere right now including on the big |
| 1:14.8 | screen in the new movie Wonder which is based on a YA novel which actually my |
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