Daveed Diggs Talks Extrapolations & Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid
36The writer of Contagion, Scott Z. Burns, returns with a new and thought-provoking eight-episode series, Extrapolations, which is now streaming on Apple TV+. This anthology looks to a day in the not-so-distant future when the consequences of climate change begin to stack up around us. On top of the poignant scripts, Extrapolations boasts a stellar cast to tell these alarming stories, and Collider’s Steve Weintraub was able to sit down and chat with Grammy and Tony Award-winner, Daveed Diggs, best known for his performance in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, who joins the ranks of Meryl Streep, Edward Norton, Tobey Maguire, and more in this upcoming series.
In his interview, Diggs best explains Extrapolations by saying, “one of the particular things that science fiction is great at is extrapolating ourselves a little bit, like moving a little bit ahead of our current moment.” In Burns’ episodic series, we see the uncomfortably-near future in digestible Black Mirror-esque vignettes that show all mankind has accomplished like humans on Mars and the cure for cancer, yet the planet itself is crumbling around us. Diggs tells us Burns looks at the bigger picture by zeroing in on personal stories, with a touch of whimsy in dreamlike sequences in which Diggs will tap into his musical roots, and discusses the repercussions of our inaction we’re seeing today.
The star-studded cast also includes Kit Harington, Gemma Chan, Keri Russell, Sienna Miller, Marion Cotillard, Diane Lane, and Forest Whitaker. In addition to this massive talent, Diggs shares what it was like working with his up-and-coming co-star, Neska Rose, who he says is “wonderful,” and also shares a little bit about his time on the set of Disney’s highly-anticipated The Little Mermaid with star Halle Bailey!
For more on the show, check out the review by Collider's Chase Hutchinson that says, "...it pushes us to reflect on one of the most important questions of our age: what is it that will happen if we fail to prevent the coming catastrophe?"
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