![]() ![]() ![]() "The kid who lost round one was slapped in the face but clearly ready to keep going, but everyone else broke it up. "Both camps had a conference about it, and then they were like, 'OK, we're gonna do this, let's have a second round.' The fight was literally the worst sort of slap boxing." Diggs laughs. ![]() The 34-year-old Diggs is just as compelling and energetic to watch as he is to listen to, even when describing a schoolyard fight. It's not hard to understand why he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the Broadway juggernaut Hamilton. Kids were celebrating, pointing, and telling jokes about the other kid on the ground, who was like, 'You didn't even hit me! You ready for round two?'"ĭiggs told me he was shy when I sat down to lunch with him and the poet Rafael Casal, his friend and long-time collaborator, but his knack for warm and engaging storytelling instantly turns him into an unavoidably dynamic presence. "I clearly got there right after round one. I watched an amazing fight yesterday between these kids across the street from my house." Daveed Diggs puts down his fork so he can use his hands to punctuate the beats of this story about the scuffle he saw in his neighborhood while walking Soccer, the dog he shares with his girlfriend. ![]()
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