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Nia Long & Taye Diggs Talk Mid-Life Crises, Best Man Series & More
Taye Diggs is acceptable to get his groove on—again.
The histrion returns arsenic Harper Stewart from The Best Man films successful Peacock's caller miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters. But there's 1 rom-com relation from his repertoire that E! News' Justin Sylvester would emotion to spot him reprise: Winston Shakespeare from How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
As for whether the histrion would beryllium down to reunite with starring woman Angela Bassett for a sequel to the 1998 film? "One 100 percent," Taye exclusively revealed connected the Dec. 15 occurrence of E! News.
"She would wholly bash it," added Taye's The Final Chapters co-star Nia Long, who adjacent pitched herself for the film, stating, "I should nonstop it. Call, Angie."
While fans whitethorn person to hold to spot Taye and Angela—who precocious scored a 2023 Golden Globe nomination for her relation successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever—back onscreen together, rom-com fans volition soon find retired what the formed of The Best Man person been up to implicit the years.
Among the cast's returning stars are Regina Hall, Morris Chestnut, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Melissa De Sousa and Harold Perrineau. And Nia teased connected E! News that plentifulness of breathtaking things are headed their characters' ways, from "career changes" and "great sex," to adjacent midlife crises.
The second taxable is 1 the show's formed tin subordinate to, arsenic co-star Regina told E! News, "As an actor, we enactment successful a midlife crisis."
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"People are like, 'What americium I gonna bash now?'" she continued. "I deliberation there's conscionable a authorities that an histrion exists in, truthful that erstwhile midlife situation comes, sometimes it is not arsenic extreme."
Morris agreed, telling E! News, "You're ne'er truly unchangeable successful that regards erstwhile it comes to work."
Hear much from the cast—including wherefore Taye is embarrassed to admit what his midlife situation was—in the afloat interrogation above.
All 8 episodes of The Best Man: The Final Chapters premiere Thursday, Dec. 22, connected Peacock.
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