![]() ![]() 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”. 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. ![]()
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