If you’re looking forward to seeing Hamilton star Daveed Diggs in the upcoming film adaptation of Nickel Boys, fair warning: You’ll only ever see the back of his head.
At a press conference following a New York Film Festival screening of the film on Friday, Diggs recalled the first moment that Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross explained his role in the movie, which is based on Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed 2019 novel of the same name.
“He was like, ‘Look, I don’t want you to feel undervalued, the camera’s going to be on your back. You’re wearing the camera, but it’s behind your head,’” Diggs told the NYFF audience. “I was like, ‘Lit. This is wild! I’ve never done anything like this before, and I’m sure I won’t get to again. Let’s go.’”
Diggs added, with a laugh, “It was a huge selling point for me, but it’s mostly because I did not understand what he was saying at all.”
What Ross was saying was that …