Mahershala Ali
Fresh Air

Mahershala Ali

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 202645 min
  • Interview

In his new action thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for his children on his own. The role brings together a lot of what has shaped Ali as an actor, including an attraction to characters who live in morally complicated places. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about why the script blew him away, filming Moonlight, and his childhood. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage y...

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. A hitman drives across Houston with his newborn in the back seat, searching for breast milk. His wife has just died, and nothing in his line of work

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has prepared him to keep their three children safe without her. That's Latif, the man at the center of Mahershala Ali's new film,

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