DeWanda Wise And Taye Diggs: She's Gotta Get Her Groove Back

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🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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She's Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise recalls pursuing acting to avoid detention. And, Taye Diggs reflects on playing Hedwig, and his return to TV. Then they face off for This, That, or the Other. This episode originally aired on May 3, 2019.

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast uses some unsavory language.
0:04.0	Please be advised.
0:08.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in
0:12.0	beautiful Brooklyn, New York, its NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:16.0	word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:19.0	I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host,
0:21.0	Ophira Eisenberg.
0:24.0	Hello!
0:30.0	Hi everybody.
0:33.0	We have four brilliant contestants.
0:35.0	They're backstage right now trying to remember when
0:38.0	Cinco de Mayo is.
0:40.0	And soon they'll be playing our nerdy fun games.
0:43.0	And one of them will be our big winner.
0:45.0	We have two guests on the show.
0:48.0	We have Dewanda Wise.
0:51.0	And we have Tay Diggs.
0:58.0	Pretty amazing.
1:01.0	Dewanda Wise, she stars in the Netflix series,
1:05.0	which is based on Spike Lee's, she's got to have it.
1:09.0	Dewanda Wise actually got into acting because she got in
1:13.0	trouble in high school and a high school teacher offered her
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