Interviewed With Taye
Diggs (TD)
Look
for Taye in these films: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Go and
The Wood.
Now, Taye Diggs is starring in The Best Man as Harper, a
novelist on the verge of success who is struggling to shake some of
the skeletons out of his closet. Here, he shares a few thoughts with
blackfilm.com about his part in the film.
 On
why he feels The Best Man is a groundbreaking movie:
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TD
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With the exception of Love Jones I don't know
that there's been a film out there with a predominately African- American
cast that has such crossover over appeal not related to its "star
power." I enjoyed Waiting to Exhale but there were still a lot of
negative black stereotypes in that movie… not that there aren't negative
black stereotypes in The Best Man but I think there are a lot less.
I think this movie is much more universal than any other black-acted
pieces out there. It has the potential, if people accept it, to help
with racial barriers. If non-African Americans take the risk [of seeing
the movie] even though they see a bunch of black faces in the trailer,
that's a step forward, as trite as it sounds, of us getting along
with each other. And as far as black people are concerned, it's a
good movie for us because it shows black folk in a very positive,
uplifting, different light as opposed to the way we've been portrayed
in other films.
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On his character's commitment-phobia and
its truth in the real world:
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TD
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I think most men - at some point in theirs lives…
when you're in your mid to late twenties, and you have a lady, and
you're comfortable with her, and there seems to be nowhere else to
go except that final step… and just the fact that I said 'final step'
connotes that it's the end of something! There's a fear there. When
you say "the rest of your life," it evokes some fear. I think you
just have to think of it in terms of one day at a time. It's so difficult
to find somebody you can spend even a week with, much less years or
months so you just have to take a look at what you have and then decide
from there.
Read Part I *
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