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Taye Diggs: Your Grandma's Favorite

Actor Taye Diggs reflects on How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Hedwig on Broadway, and portraying a football coach. Then he plays a game of This, That or the Other with DeWanda Wise.
Taye Diggs appears on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

The titular character in is not a role Taye Diggs thought he would get to play. The off-Broadway-turned Broadway hit musical by John Cameron Mitchell saw a slew of actors like Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, and Michael C. Hall all portray the story of the glam and punk rock transgender woman as she travels from East Germany to America on tourBut for Diggs, taking on

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