Having hung up the coats – one for Lafayette, one for Jefferson – he wears for Hamilton, actor, rapper and singer Daveed Diggs is now booking new roles on screen. His first big screen gig since exiting the Tony-winning dual performance? Wonder, alongside Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay.
The film, adapted from R.J. Palacio’s bestseller by Jack Thorne and Steve Conrad, finds Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman – a young boy born with a facial deformity. Wonder's story follows Auggie’s first dalliance with a mainstream school and those within its walls, where Diggs will be one of his teachers. Speed-rapping status not yet confirmed.
Roberts is Auggie’s mother, and Owen Wilson is set as his father in the big screen adaptation directed by Perks Of Being A Wallflower author/director Stephen Chbosky.
Diggs has also signed up for a new comedy one-off from the team (including Andy Samberg behind sports mockumentary 7 Days In Hell. The new one, Tour De Pharmacy, swings its glare towards the doping scandals in cycling. And before either of these projects, he'll be on our screens in an episode of Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, which launches on Netflix next month.