#Stella got her groove back movie
The Wood, both a buddy movie and a coming-of-age story, functioned along two timelines of a black male perspective. But, hold on - let’s take a walk down Diggs’ memory lane.ĭiggs starred as wayward bridegroom Roland, the funnyman in a trio of friends who grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Inglewood when it was a black middle-class enclave. And on deck is River Runs Red, with John Cusack and George Lopez. Over the years, there have been so many stellar Diggs moments, including roles in Murder in the First, Will & Grace, Empire, Grey’s Anatomy and The West Wing. The soapy and juicy All-American is definitely about more than just football and is already being called “ a bright spot at the start of a moribund network-TV season.” The show also leans into the relationship between Spencer and Coach Baker. Inspired by real-life Super Bowl champion Spencer Paysinger, Diggs portrays coach Billy Baker, who recruits Spencer James, an A student and ace baller at South Crenshaw High in Los Angeles, to leave Compton and come to the 90210. He’s back this week as a high school football coach in The CW’s new All-American. And Taye Diggs is still giving the culture some culture. 2, behind the fourth week of Steven Spielberg’s epic Saving Private Ryan, but more important than the $39.2 million that weekend is the collected imagery it gave us: a single, successful black woman finding love with a beautiful new man.Īnd, of course, Stella gave us Taye Diggs.
Because Diggs, all charisma and electric smile, made the whole scenario deliciously believable. The film, which also featured Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King, sent many a woman packing for the Caribbean. Diggs, as Winston Shakespeare, was the 20-year-old chocolate wake-up call to Bassett’s high-powered, 40-something businesswoman. “I helped Taye,” she said in 2016, “by recording some of his dialogue using a Jamaican accent to help him learn the cadence.”īut it was in 1998, when he was paired with Angela Bassett in the film adaptation of Terry McMillan’s game-changing, best-selling and very personal novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, that Diggs made a home for himself in the cultural consciousness. The Tony-, Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning musical opened in April 1996, and according to cast member Gwen Stewart (who is of Jamaican descent), it was she who helped Diggs with his accent when, during Rent’s run, he got a call to audition for Stella. But before that, Diggs, born in Newark, New Jersey, made his bones as Benjamin Coffin III in the original Broadway production of Rent, alongside Jesse L. Regina King’s versatility as a performer and down to earth good looks have made her one of Hollywood’s most in-demand young actresses.Twenty summers ago Taye Diggs arrived on the big screen, setting hearts aflutter and requiring nearly everyone, everywhere to locate a groove - and to get it back. Blackmore wrote several novels and many volumes of poetry, but is chiefly… Regina King, Actress ( Richard Doddridge) (1825–1900) English novelist and poet.
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