Daveed Diggs Isn’t Throwing Away His Shots
[…] His sense of innate human value likely came from his father, whom Diggs describes as having “never withheld a demonstration of love to anybody,” particularly not to him and his brother. Diggs told Esquire in 2016 that his dad “doesn’t necessarily identify as gay, but I’ve known my father’s boyfriends throughout my life.” As Diggs tells PLAYBOY, “We lived in dangerous places, but I never felt unsafe with my father around. Strength and emotion were not opposites. They were all in one man for me, and in one man without a heteronormative identity.”
[…] If there’s another thread running through Diggs’s projects, it’s that he wants to choose characters who continue to push our cultural conversation forward. “I don’t like to play in worlds where stupidity is excused or justified or is part of the world,” Diggs says, emphasizing his preference for complex studies of human desires and conflicts.
[…] “Music these days has become accessible to everybody, and that’s good, so I always want to keep making music,” he says. (In addition to his many acting projects, Diggs fronts the hip-hop group Clipping.) “That’s another reason it’s important to work in TV and film: Those are actually more accessible than theater in a lot of ways. Even if I’m sort of uncomfortable with them, I want to figure out ways to tell the important stories by those means.”
Talk of the future raises another question: Has his father’s evolved masculinity inspired Diggs to raise a family of his own? The artist says he “desperately” wants to have kids and explains how his creative choices will factor into the herculean task of fatherhood. “Raising black kids in the world, I want them to be less afraid than I was,” he says. “I wonder, What the hell kind of place am I bringing a kid into, and is that okay? That’s stressful, and it also makes me want to keep making art that’s important and speaks to those things.”
He concludes the thought on a note that would surely make his father proud. “I want the world to be better for my children, whenever they get here.”
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