Barry Jenkins on Mahershala Ali: “He’s extremely, extremely soulful.”
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The supporting actor nominee reveals how his “melancholy” upbringing \u2014 including his parents’ split when he was 3 and growing up around drug dealers \u2014 led him on a path to becoming Muslim and speaking out at the SAG Awards in the face of Trump’s travel ban. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barry Jenkins on Mahershala Ali: “He’s extremely, extremely soulful.” … The supporting actor nominee reveals how his “melancholy” upbringing \u2014 including his parents’ split when he was 3 and growing up around drug dealers \u2014 led him on a path to becoming Muslim and speaking out at the SAG Awards in the face of Trump’s … Continue reading ‘Moonlight’ Breakout Mahershala Ali in His Own Words: A Personal Journey From Childhood Upheaval to Spiritual Awakening<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}