“Hamilton” alum Daveed Diggs stepped into a familiar sci-fi franchise with “Snowpiercer,” a drama set in the universe of the post-apocalyptic Bong Joon Ho thriller led by Chris Evans. A…
Congratulations on jumping into “Altered Carbon.” Are you a sci-fi head? Because I am, and you do an awful lot of sci-fi stuff.I’m not a big sci-fi person. I grew up on “Star Wars,” but I never got into anything futuristic. When I was in high school, there was this movie called “Starship Troopers.”In New Orleans we had huge cockroaches. “Starship Troopers” freaked me out. I can’t do it, man. My imagination is too vivid. But “Altered Carbon” was great.
The same thing with “Hamilton.” I’m sure when you guys were doing “Hamilton,” you felt like Mick Jagger every time you walked out the stage door.The stage door was such a trip. One of the things I appreciate about these fandom worlds is how much the art that you consume is part of your identity. You end up with this wild mix of people who tend to be weirdos and have to shut parts of themselves off.
My big push with Marvel is hire the best person for the job. Even if it means we’re going to get the best two women, we’re going to get the best two men. Fine. I’m cool with those numbers for the next 10 years. Because it starts to build a new generation of people who can put something on their résumé to get them other jobs. If we’ve got to divvy out as a percentage, divvy it out. And that’s something as leading men that we can go in and push for.
There are opportunities that I think are missed on the show and things that I end up having to be a gatekeeper for, which should never trickle down to me. Simply because you didn’t have a diversity of eyes on it, particularly upper-level eyes who everyone has to listen to. I’m just like, “I don’t think this show has yet figured out a good way to talk about the fact that class and race are inseparable.
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