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
thinking black comedy
I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.
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Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama
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Let’s just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made me really miss my wife.
nerd juniors junior-high
I was never a hundred percent comfortable with the women I was hanging with because I was afraid they'd find out that I'm still the same person I was in junior high. With Idina, I didn't have to be ashamed of the nerd inside that came out.
growing-up eyeglasses nerd
Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
stage
I'm always up for going back to the stage.
casting concerned died far matter
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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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
grown people wood
The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
black club dance last night nobody somebody wishing
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.