{"id":272596,"date":"2021-06-12T01:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-daveed-diggs-and-rafael-casal-did-a-blindspotting-show\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T01:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:28:46","slug":"why-daveed-diggs-and-rafael-casal-did-a-blindspotting-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-daveed-diggs-and-rafael-casal-did-a-blindspotting-show\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal did a ‘Blindspotting’ show"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal did a ‘Blindspotting’ show<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal originally had no intention of turning their critically acclaimed 2018 movie \u201cBlindspotting\u201d into a show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was not a goal of ours. We wanted to leave it alone and go do something else,\u201d Casal, 35, told The Post. \u201cLionsgate \u2014 who helped us release the film \u2014 proposed the idea of a series<\/a> and we were quick to tell them \u2018No, thank you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Premiering Sunday, June 13 (9 p.m.) on Starz, \u201cBlindspotting\u201d is a half-hour dramedy continuing the story from the movie of the same name that Casal and Diggs co-wrote and starred in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Set in Oakland, Calif., the movie follows friends Colin Hoskins (Diggs) and Miles (Casal) as their relationship becomes strained after Colin witnesses a police shooting and Miles\u2019 behavior becomes increasingly reckless.<\/p>\n

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Rafael Casal, left, as Miles, and Daveed Digs, right, as Colin in the \u201cBindspotting\u201d movie.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Lions Gate\/courtesy Everett Co<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The series \u2014 which the duo co-created and co-exec produce\u2013 begins after the events of the film, when Miles is suddenly incarcerated. His longtime partner Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones), must then bring their son Sean (Atticus Woodward) to move in with Miles\u2019s mother Rainey (Helen Hunt) and half-sister Trish (Jaylen Barron), as Ashley\u2019s life spirals into chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Miles (Rafael Casal), right and Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones), left, in a scene from the \u201cBlindspotting\u201d show. <\/figcaption>
Patrick Wymore<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt felt like Colin and Miles\u2019 story was hard to top,\u201d said Casal. \u201cWe thought we\u2019d come in and tell Lionsgate \u2018No\u2019 politely. And I remember on the drive there, [Daveed Diggs and I] were like, \u2018Is there a version that we would make on our own?\u2019 When we cut the movie, we wanted more Jasmine [Cephas Jones]. The version of the show that we would want to watch is one that was about the women that shaped our lives growing up in the Bay. <\/p>\n

\u201cAshley is really a combination of about four to five people that we grew up with. All the characters in this world are based on people we can write to and also pick up the phone and just call and ask a tough question. That\u2019s the beauty of having a community in your art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Janelle
Sean (Atticus Woodward), left, Trish (Jaylen Barron), Janelle (Candace Nicholas-Lippman), and Miles\u2019 mom Rainey (Helen Hunt), right, are a chaotic new world for Ashley on \u201cBlindspotting.\u201d <\/figcaption>
Eddy Chen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casal\u2019s real-life friendship with the \u201cHamilton\u201d star extends back several decades.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met in high school probably around 1999 or 2000,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was a senior when I was a freshman. So \u2018meet\u2019 is an extreme word. We didn\u2019t become best friends as seniors and freshmen often do not. But he was in the theater and poetry scene and I was in the poetry and music scene \u2014 so there was that overlap of the poetry scene. We became fast best friends probably around 2004, when he came through a studio session at my recording studio.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rest is history, as they got to working on \u201cBlindspotting\u201d together.<\/p>\n

\"Miles
Miles (Rafael Casal) as he is incarcerated on \u201cBlindspotting.\u201d <\/figcaption>
Eddy Chen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe next challenge \u2013 which ended up being a beautiful process \u2013 was figuring how to make this truly collaborative, so that there wasn\u2019t two dudes at the top deciding what a bunch of female characters do, which is sort of a nightmare,\u201d said Casal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They ended up filling their writers\u2019 room with women and giving stars such as Helen Hunt heavy input into their characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Helen Hunt as Miles\u2019s mom, Rainey, on \u201cBlindspotting.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Eddy Chen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe knew we wanted it to be Helen from the moment we came up with the character. Helen was a big supporter of the movie. She said something about it on Twitter<\/a>, I slid in her [messages], and we became friends. We were always teasing the idea of her of her playing this white hippie progressive Bay Area mom. I hadn\u2019t seen Helen in a role like that. She came back to us like, \u2018I want to talk about who she is.\u2019 And that really became our process.\u201d\n <\/div>\n