Daveed Diggs Shares Details About His Role as Sebastian in Live-Action Little Mermaid

Are you as excited as we are to have the Hamilton star play the beloved crab – Sebastian- in the upcoming live-action movie? We were thrilled to see Diggs share some inside details about his upcoming role.

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Daveed Diggs explained that he did a lot of studying when it came to preparing for his role as Sebastian. In the upcoming live-action version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the Hamilton star, 39, voices Sebastian, and, as he recently told Collider, he prepared for the role more diligently than he has for any character he’s ever played.

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Diggs went onto explain,”I worked harder on Sebastian probably than I have for any role in my life. It’s tricky,” Diggs said. “… I tend to say yes to things when I feel like I can do it, but I’m actually not sure I’m the smart choice or the person naturally who should be doing it. That’s true of Sebastian, for a lot of ways that are uncomfortable.”

“I’m not of Caribbean descent,” he said, explaining that he’d been “doing that kind of work and trying to immerse myself.”

“I’ve spent a lot of time in Trinidad and I went to Jamaica to research, and I did a lot of voice work with Chris Walker and with the late Tony Hall, to try to get the voice right,” said Diggs. “But more than the voice, the thing about a dialect is that everybody’s voice is actually very different, so consistency is really more important than accuracy. Your speech pattern is based on culture, and that was the thing I didn’t want to let down.”

Are you excited to see him in this role?

Source: People