
Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode “We Are In The Future,” The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.


If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity - and own who they really are. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past-and about the future of her people. The actor, best known for his role in the hip-hop musical Hamilton, chatted with PEOPLE. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities - and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Daveed Diggs truly thinks its 'incredible' that Halle Bailey is playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. Hamilton actor Daveed Diggs will be lending his voice to Sebastian the crab in Disneys The Little Mermaid live-action remake - a perfect fit. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Sebastian the crab, played by Daveed Diggs, looks much more like an actual crab than his animated counterpart, while the plucky seagull Scuttle, brought to life by Awkwafina, was changed into a. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save on e- the historian. Yetu holds the memories for her people - water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners - who live idyllic lives in the deep. The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society - and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping.
