Exclusive: Daveed Diggs on playing a Black Rabbi in Apple TV+ series Extrapolations
Now airing on Apple TV+ is “Extrapolations,” a bracing drama that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?
“Extrapolations” premiered with the first three episodes on March 17, followed by new episodes weekly, every Friday through April 21, 2023
The star-studded series from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns, and produced by Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res, stars Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Tahar Rahim, Yara Shahidi, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Keri Russell, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, Eiza González, Murray Bartlett, Indira Varma, Tobey Maguire, MaameYaa Boafo, Hari Nef, Heather Graham, Michael Gandolfini, Cherry Jones, Gaz Choudhry, Ben Harper, Judd Hirsch and Neska Rose.
Daveed Diggs plays Marshall Zucker, a Rabbi in South Florida. Diggs was last seen playing Andre Layton in the TNT series Snowpiercer. He’s also done voice work in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Star Trek: Prodigy, Blindspotting, and the upcoming Disney+ series The Crossover. He previously starred as Frederick Douglass in the Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Diggs about his role in Extrapolations.