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Daveed Diggs Says Voicing Sebastian In ‘The Little Mermaid’ Is The Hardest Acting Job Of His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Actress David Diggs has
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  Speaker 1: played multiple complex characters, from the history meets Hip Hop
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  Speaker 1: role of Thomas Jefferson and Hamilton to the world's last
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  Speaker 1: surviving homicide detective on TNT snow Piercer, so it might
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  Speaker 1: not come as a surprise that he says the role
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  Speaker 1: he's worked on harder than any other was his upcoming
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  Speaker 1: gig as a talking crab. David is voicing Sebastian in
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming live action remakeup Disney's That Little Mermaid, and
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  Speaker 1: it's important for him to be true to the accents roots.
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  Speaker 1: He tells Collider, I tend to say yes to things
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  Speaker 1: when I feel like I can do it, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure on the person, naturally who should be doing it.
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  Speaker 1: That's true of Sebastian for a lot of ways that
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  Speaker 1: are uncomfortable. Your speech pattern is based on culture, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what I didn't want to let down. I want
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  Speaker 1: someone who is from Trinidad or Jamaica to seat themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid hasn't said it's released date yet, but
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  Speaker 1: season two of snow Piercer is on t N T
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  Speaker 1: now that's direct from Hollywood.