We can’t stop watching Blindspotting Season 2! We sat down to chat with Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, creators of the show, about the creative process and the necessary balance between hard conversations and comedy that keeps the series edgy. Ready?
Here we go!
Representation Matters in Blindspotting Season 2
Blindspotting is in the middle of Season 2 and getting here is not an easy road. Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs share with us how it feels to see the fruits of the hard work of the entire team. Thus, they highlight how lucky they are to live everything they are experiencing.
Taking a deep dive into Blindspotting Season 2, Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs discuss how important it is for them to truly reflect the Bay Area and its uniqueness by listening to and learning from the Bay Area Legends idols featured on the show.
But if there’s something about Blindspotting, it’s that it reflects different forms of art. Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs confess that, although integrating everything into the show is a difficult challenge, it’s worth it because sometimes a dance expresses things that words cannot.
In this way, they can explore the emotional conflicts of the characters and the situations they are going through differently, making the viewer connect directly with their emotions. Also, Rafael and Daveed tell us how and when exactly this idea came about.
Going deeper into the creative discussions that Rafael and Daveed have, they share with us how they planned the balance between comedy and drama in Blindspotting Season 2. The show is characterized by putting the focus on tough conversations with comedic points and that it’s not an easy thing. But they both manage to do it perfectly. And they promised us that this Season we would have a double helping of jokes!
Tough Talks are the Brand of Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs
As we mentioned, Blindspotting puts the focus on complicated conversations precisely because they are complicated and very few shows do it. And Season 2 is no exception. But one episode stands out above the rest. In it, Miles (Rafael Casal) and Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) have a conversation about the n-word with Sean (Atticus Woodward).
Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs share how this conversation was built based on their own experiences and how they balanced the fact that Miles has to participate in that conversation because he is Sean’s father but cannot and should not be the leader of it.
And this is one of those answers that is worth listening to in its entirety. So we are going to let you do it by watching the video because everything we said would fall short with their answers. This is simply one of those times when we just have to listen.
With a career like Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs on a show like Blindspotting, it would be easy for both of them to think about how they’re going to be remembered. However, Rafael and Daveed prefer not to focus on that and stick with the team experiences that the series has given them.
Communication and Collaboration in Blindspotting Season 2 Team
Both Rafael and Daveed point out that, although they are the visible faces as creators of the show, there is a very large team that makes Blindspotting possible and they are grateful for their work. We love that they give fair credit to all those who work invisibly to keep the show going.
Talking about the great team collaboration that makes Blindspotting possible, Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs point out how they work hard to listen to the whole team and make sure everyone feels represented.
Being such a big team, it’s not easy to do it but the collaboration between all the staff makes it possible that, in one way or another, their voice is heard. Thanks to that, Blindspotting has a part of each one of them and the work environment cannot be better. To do this, Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs share their secret: communication and collaboration.
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Blindspotting Season 2 airs on STARZ.
