Taye Diggs
Taye Diggs
Scott Leo "Taye" Diggsis an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the TV series Private Practice, the film How Stella Got Her Groove Back and the film The Best Man and its sequel The Best Man Holiday. Since 2014 he has starred as Inspector Terry English in Murder in the First...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 January 1971
CityNewark, NJ
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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There's no white person I know that can say that they haven't been through what any of these Black characters are going through.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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My concern is if Katrina were not to have happened, I'm wondering if people would realize the continuing relevance of pieces such as this. I really think a lot of white folks just get tired of being reminded that race is still an issue, because today it is so subtle and kind of masked.
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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
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As corny as it sounds, this is really a fantasy come true,
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Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.
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When I agreed to do the show, I thought it was a brilliant premise, ... but it turned out to be a fixer-upper. By the end, I was beat down. It takes a lot of energy fixing and upping.
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It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I've done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal.
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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.