Spoken verse gave birth to Blindspotting, but its journey from concept to fully formed film was a long and complex one. “Two days before I left LA to move to New York to work on Hamilton, I got pulled off of my bike and thrown up against a fence by police officers who thought I fitted a description. Because I had forgotten to turn my lights on and I was driving at night.” Over three years in his 20s, he was pulled over 36 times. “My car was surrounded by four police cars, one of them walking up to the door with his hand on his gun. “I got pulled over the first time, five days after I got my driver’s licence, I was 16,” says Diggs. Growing up, he was never as aware of the imbalance as when he was around some of his more reckless white friends, a burden he compares to “a weight on my shoulders, a kind of disability that wasn’t shared by them”. Regardless of the success he has had of late – including his double-star turn as both Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton’s original Broadway cast - the 36-year-old says that fear is still “always there”. Hopefully, the Hamilton star’s performance will be much in the same breath as Wright’s.D aveed Diggs, born poor and “very happy” in Oakland, California, says his Jewish mother and African-American father informed him early on that he was going to be policed differently than many of his friends. Knowing Diggs will be the next Sebastian made the Wright tribute a full-circle moment. Wright is a giant amongst the pantheon of Disney Renaissance films.
The live-action adaptation currently has no release date after considerable delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Īs Daveed Diggs pointed out, Samuel E. Wright’s passing came out at an awkward time, as the live-action Little Mermaid film is currently filming with Daveed Diggs, Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy and other cast-mates. The much-debate live-action film has a legacy to live up to, even with the star-studded cast. That film’s commercial and critical success helped to build the foundation of the live-action adaptation.
The 1989 Disney classic revived the House of Mouse’s image as the premier animation studio and led to the Disney Renaissance in the 1990s. Wright’s contribution to The Little Mermaid was important to a generation of Disney fans.
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