VIDEO: Daveed Diggs Recalls How He Came to Star in HAMILTON

Rapper and actor Daveed Diggs, who was nominated for a Tony Award this week for his dual role of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton, stopped by PBS's CHARLIE ROSE to talk about the hit Broadway musical.

Diggs recalls the first time director Thomas Kail approached him about the project. "Tommy tells me 'Lin's writing this new thing, it's a rap musical about Alexander Hamilton, and I told him it's a terrible idea and to please send me the music!'", explains the actor. "And he asked if I'd come to a reading at Vassar and I said 'of course, I have no money and would do anything you would ask me to do right now, particularly if there is a check attached to it!'" Watch the interview in full below!

HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. 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), Rory O'Malley (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, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).