{"id":329,"date":"2026-02-01T04:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/02\/01\/daveed-diggs-says-becoming-a-dad-is-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-and-its-not-even-close-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:47","slug":"daveed-diggs-says-becoming-a-dad-is-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-and-its-not-even-close-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/02\/01\/daveed-diggs-says-becoming-a-dad-is-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-and-its-not-even-close-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Daveed Diggs Says Becoming a Dad Is \u2018the Best Thing I\u2019ve Ever Done \u2014 and It\u2019s Not Even Close\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn terms of how it relates to my work, to me it just felt like an immediate focusing agent,\u201d the \u2018In the Blink of an Eye\u2019 star tells PEOPLE<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/OaH_1E9B3jUGCFQaD0zsLKh8khA=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Daveed-Diggs-baby-012926-4c693cece3794f76a5caf6cedc330439.jpg\" alt=\"Daveed Diggs at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; his newborn son\u2019s feet in March 2024 Arturo Holmes\/Getty; Emmy Raver-Lampman\/Instagram\" title=\"Daveed Diggs; Daveed Diggs' baby\" \/><figcaption><i>Daveed Diggs at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; his newborn son\u2019s feet in March 2024 <\/i>\n<p>Arturo Holmes\/Getty; Emmy Raver-Lampman\/Instagram<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Daveed Diggs discussed fatherhood exclusively with PEOPLE at the premiere of his sci-fi film, <em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, on Jan. 26<\/li>\n<li>He and his partner, fellow <em>Hamilton<\/em> on Broadway alum Emmy Raver-Lampman, welcomed a son together in 2024<\/li>\n<li><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, also starring Rashida Jones and Kate McKinnon, will be available to stream on Hulu on Feb. 27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/home\/hamiltons-daveed-diggs-shows-off-his-colorful-quirky-l-a-home-no-other-place-i-want-to-be\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Daveed Diggs<\/a> is loving his <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity-parenting\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">dad era<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with PEOPLE in an exclusive conversation at the premiere of his latest project, sci-fi film <a href=\"https:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/program\/film\/6932fb78bd8651648d60fcc3\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em><\/a>, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26, the 44-year-old actor discussed fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve ever done \u2014 and it\u2019s not even close, and I\u2019ve lived a charmed life since,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/daveed-diggs-and-emmy-raver-lampman-welcome-first-baby-together-8550806\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Diggs, who welcomed a son<\/a> in 2024 with his partner, fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/where-is-hamilton-cast-now-11785696\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\"><em>Hamilton<\/em> on Broadway<\/a> alum <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/daveed-diggs-and-emmy-raver-lampman-relationship-timeline\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\">Emmy Raver-Lampman<\/a>, 37.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/IksroFUgRofHsWngNjjmDKRHX0w=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Emmy-Raver-Lampman-and-Daveed-Diggs-012926-c33379f8eec1412e8e9b989cec4591f5.jpg\" alt=\"Emmy Raver-Lampman and Daveed Diggs in September 2025 Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty\u00a0\" title=\"Emmy Raver-Lampman and Daveed Diggs\" \/><figcaption><i>Emmy Raver-Lampman and Daveed Diggs in September 2025 <\/i>\n<p>Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBut I think in terms of how it relates to my work, to me it just felt like an immediate focusing agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to be like, \u2018Oh, what should I do right now? Or is this a thing I need to take or should I be out here hustling more?\u2019 And all of a sudden it was just like, \u2018If it doesn\u2019t make [my son\u2019s] life better, it doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019 \u201d Diggs explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tony winner, who won Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical in 2016 for his dual role as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in <em>Hamilton<\/em>, added at Sundance that his values are \u201cso clear\u201d now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo actually in all the ways I thought it would be tough it actually has been really clarifying and amazing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4N7xuJL5w3\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4N7xuJL5w3\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\"> \n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Diggs and Raver-Lampman met while working on Hamilton in 2015, started dating a year later\u00a0and eventually announced the birth of their first child, a son whose name they\u2019ve kept private, in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Raver-Lampman shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4N7xuJL5w3\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Instagram post<\/a> featuring her newborn\u2019s tiny feet and a sweet caption about his birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cdear baby, you have forever changed us. our hearts are filled with a kind of love we never thought possible,\u201d she wrote. \u201cwe love you more than you will truly ever know. thank you for choosing us. now please\u2026go the f*ck to sleep. love, mom and dad. \u2665\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/u7EGTqFpE_tu-KUicMg9MWRy3QU=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Kate-McKinnon-Doron-Weber-and-Daveed-Diggs-012926-c0df2d3df8ad4f61bb6942bc172cdec9.jpg\" alt=\"Kate McKinnon, Doron Weber and Daveed Diggs on Jan. 26, 2026 Arturo Holmes\/Getty\" title=\"Kate McKinnon, Doron Weber and Daveed Diggs\" \/><figcaption><i>Kate McKinnon, Doron Weber and Daveed Diggs on Jan. 26, 2026 <\/i>\n<p>Arturo Holmes\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Sundance, Diggs admitted that before his son\u2019s birth, he asked<em> In the Blink of an Eye <\/em>costar <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/rashida-jones\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Rashida Jones<\/a> for parenting tips while filming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat whole experience for me was right before I had a kid,\u201d he told PEOPLE. \u201cShe was probably so sick of me. Every time they said, \u2018Cut,\u2019 we\u2019d go back to the chairs and I\u2019d be like, \u2018So I need more tips. Tell me what am I going to do? How do you be an artist and have a baby?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diggs and Jones, 49, play present-day anthropologist students who begin dating in <em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, a sci-film movie about \u201cthree storylines, spanning thousands of years, [that] intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life,\u201d according to the film\u2019s description.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, also starring <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-mckinnon\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Kate McKinnon<\/a> in a future scenario, will be available to stream on Hulu on Feb. 27.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn terms of how it relates to my work, to me it just felt like an immediate focusing agent,\u201d the \u2018In the Blink of an Eye\u2019 star tells PEOPLE Daveed Diggs at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; his newborn son\u2019s feet in March 2024 Arturo Holmes\/Getty; Emmy Raver-Lampman\/Instagram NEED TO KNOW Daveed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}