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Top 3: Daveed Diggs

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Top 3, a semi-regular bonus series where we ask our favorite creative people to talk about three films they love! In this interview, Daveed Diggs talks about growing up on Abbott & Costello, a new film from Côte d'Ivoire he can't stop thinking about, and some of the influences that went into Blindspotting (both the film and series).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled Top 3!

0:28.5

I'm Amy Nicholson and I'm Paul Sheer and welcome to a very special episode of Unspooled.

0:33.9

Today we'll be sitting down with David Diggs and talking to him about films that really

0:38.6

impacted him and this is a new type of special that we'll be doing here on the show.

0:42.2

They're not replacing our normal episodes but they're supplementing our episodes.

0:46.0

As we get to sit down with people that we genuinely like and we want to hear from, we want

0:49.2

to hear what makes them tick from a movie standpoint.

0:54.0

Exactly!

0:55.0

It is a chance for us to talk to people that we find fascinating about the movies that they

0:58.2

find fascinating and I'm so happy that we're starting it off with the person I feel like

1:01.6

comes up on this show frequently when we are talking about actors and writers with insane

1:08.0

amounts of charisma and insane talent.

1:11.4

Yes, so we'll have our interview with David and keep on looking out for these as we have

1:15.6

a great lineup of people coming up in the next coming weeks and maybe sometimes there'll

1:19.4

be like three in a month and then you'll go two months without one.

1:22.7

Who knows?

1:23.7

We're calling it as we like because we can and you know what?

1:27.8

We're getting it for free so don't even worry about it.

1:30.0

Sit back, relax and enjoy.

1:32.0

Listen to great people, talk about movies and you know my first moment with him and it

1:37.1

wasn't like a moment that he'd actually recognize that he had with me was seeing Hamilton.

1:41.6

I saw Hamilton before there were any Tony nominations or anything like that and seeing him on stage,

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