SPOILER ALERT!This post contains details from the first three episodes of Apple TV+sExtrapolations.
Daveed Diggsplays a rabbi grappling with the realities of the climate crisis inScott Z. Burns seriesExtrapolationsfor Apple TV+.
Hes passionate about his religion and also about saving the world, specifically from the climate crisis.
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But in Episode 3, which is set 10 years later, things clearly havent worked out as planned.
Now, hes back in his hometown of Miami.
I think shes the only one in his world whos talking about it.
He hasnt been questioning things.
Diggs spoke with Deadline more about exploring the climate crisis through this perspective of faith in the interview below.
DEADLINE: How was it for you to explore the climate crisis through a faith-based lens?
Part of my work on this was talking to rabbis, and its just not true.
Theyre big advocates of science and scientific study on everything, not just the climate.
It just doesnt exist, at least for the rabbis that I was talking to.
By the time we see him again, his father is gone.
Are we to assume they mended things, or what do you think happened there?
DIGGS:Hes back in Miami, So he did something.
There were some concessions there.
Is it all for his mother?
I think that, for me, it was more useful to have it not be entirely resolved.
DEADLINE: Sometimes we do see Marshalls faith and activism at odds though.
How do you feel about how he worked through that?
We dont examine those things on smaller scales.
This one comes knocking right at his door.
And so much of his actions initially are based in sort of willful ignorance of this issue.
I dont deal with the business side of it.
My job is to be the faith leader of this community and to keep the doors open.
That is a big part of my job.
Thats why they wanted me here.
So, thats what Im doing.
But hes not in that mode anymore.
For me, the takeaway is about active choices as opposed to passive ones.
And maybe the choice doesnt change.
Maybe I still get on a plane, but I have to know what Im doing when I do.
DEADLINE: I really enjoyed the relationship between Marshall and Alana.
What do you think makes Marshall want to nurture her, as her rabbi?
DIGGS:I think shes the only one in his world whos talking about it.
He hasnt been questioning things.
