Taye Diggs and his teenage son apparently have similar taste in women.
The Best Man Holiday actor recently revealed in an interview with Usweekly that he and his 16-year-old son, Walker, both have celebrity crush on rapper Latto .
“My son and I both enjoy Latto,” Diggs said. “He doesn’t know like how I like her, but he knows that whatever he says, I’ll nod and be like, ‘Yeah, I can see that.’”
The 54-year-old actor shares Walker with former wife Idina Menzel, whom he married in 2003. The pair separated in 2013 and finalized their divorce the following year. Though the two have openly co-parented for years, Diggs acknowledged that his ex-wife takes the lead when it comes to the heavier emotional parts of parenting.
“His mother does the heavy lifting,” the Best Man Holiday actor explained. “The intensity of a mother-son relationship, I’ll never know, but she takes, you know, she takes everything, I think, just a little harder. Whereas being a man and being a father, when he goes through his teenage, you know, silent sessions, I don’t, I try not to take them as personally as I could, just because I know he’s a teenager. I know he’s a boy, and I know he has hormones.”
Still, Diggs says the two have found a rhythm that keeps Walker at the center of it all.
“Both of us realized that if we just both think of Walker first, then it kind of falls into place. And that’s exactly what has happened thus far. And luckily, he’s a good kid, so we don’t have to worry about him trying to be, you know, him manipulating us or setting one parent against the other. You know, he’s a good guy, so we just go off of what he gives us. And up to this point, it’s been OK,” he continued.
Taye also revealed that Walker has no problem stepping in when his dad’s dating life gets tricky. Diggs says he often consults his son for honest feedback when getting to know someone new.
“I’ll meet people, then I’ll show [him] pictures or videos and ask, you know, if he thinks someone’s corny or if someone looks like they’re trying too hard,” he told the outlet. “We have very similar tastes, but his is a little bit more keen. His is sharper. Whatever he tells me kind of lines up with something that I feel somewhere inside. So he’ll just like, double that, reiterate and that’ll let me know I should listen to my gut.”
And yes, Walker will absolutely tell him when someone is not the one. “He’ll be like, ‘No,’” the His, Hers & Ours star admitted. “It makes things a lot easier.”
The How Stella Got Her Groove Back alum is currently staring in Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours, now streaming on Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Club, and on-demand platforms.
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