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Top 3: Daveed Diggs

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K 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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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