VIDEO: Daveed Diggs Recalls The Surreal Moment Performing HAMILTON For The Nation's First Black President

"He told me about this new thing he was working on; this rap musical about Alexander Hamilton. I told him, 'That's a terrible idea, please send it to me, of course I want to be a part of it.'"

And that phone conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda led to Daveed Diggs' Broadway debut as both General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Broadway's smash hit, HAMILTON.

"I didn't aspire to be on Broadway, so when opening night happened I did not expect to be as emotional as I was... We were at places and I just started crying."

In a video for Observer, Diggs recalls the surreal emotional experience of playing the show for President Barack Obama, realizing significance of knowing that the nation's first black president was watching a black actor, Christopher Jackson, playing George Washington, the nation's first president.

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The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs(Marquis De Lafayette,Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler),Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Jonathan Groff (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, Philip Hamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe, Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.