Taye Diggs Joins BAGGAGE CLAIM Film

Related: Taye Diggs, Baggage Claim, Trey Songz, Paula Patton

According to The Hollywood Reporter, RENT and Private Practice star Taye Diggs and R&B music artist Trey Songz have joined the Fox Searchlight film Baggage Claim, based on the novel by David E. Talbert. Filming is underway this month in Los Angeles.

Read the original report here.

The romantic comedy is about flight attendant 'Montana Moore' who refuses to appear at her younger sister's engagement party without a fiancé of her own and decides to start the search for a mate in the air.

Paula Patton stars as the flight attendant, along with Derek Luke, Adam Brody and Djimon Hounsou. Diggs will play a political man aiming for Congress, and Songz is set to play a big-time record producer.

Diggs began his stint as Dr. Sam Bennett on the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice in 2007. He will next be seen in The Trials of Kate McCall.

Aside from playing Benjamin Coffin III in the original off-Broadway and Broadway productions of RENT, Diggs has appeared on the Great White Way in Wicked, Chicago and Carousel. His other off-Broadway credits include A Soldier's Play, The Wild Party and more.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.