“Halle is an incredible, generational talent. People forget she was just 18 when she was cast as Ariel and she has handled everything with such grace,” DaveedDiggs says 🎙️ The Little Mermaid star talks about racism and identifying with Sebastian the crab
merch in an aquamarine suit and shiny turquoise hair bobbles, Diggs is impossible to miss as his Mouse Corp minders guide him towards me after the London premiere. But for a guy famous for his high-speed syllables, he speaks and moves surprisingly slowly – like a man underwater.
Mostly, though, he identified as “a little weirdo”, he tells me. He dates a tendency to operate on his own agenda back to his resistance to appearing in a preschool play. “I must only have been four or five years old, but I didn’t want to do it. The teachers said: ‘You have to do something.’ So I said: ‘OK then, I’m going to do a gymnastics routine with my dad.’ Because I liked to walk around town balanced on my dad’s shoulders.
As both Diggs and Miranda would go on to write scripts that interrogated racial divisions in modern America, it’s worth remembering that beyond the royal romance plot,is about two different cultures learning to overcome their mutual ignorance, fear and distrust of each other. Judging by the racist backlash that followed Disney’s casting ofas the star of their remake, this was a message that swam right over the heads of many fans of the original.
Today, Diggs becomes emotional talking about Bailey. “Halle is an incredible, generational talent,” he says. “People forget she was just 18 when she was cast as Ariel and she has handled everything with…” he shakes an awed head, “such grace.”was released, Diggs spoke out about the racism he experienced as a young man. He was first pulled over by the police aged 16, five days after getting his driver’s licence.
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