‘Introducing, Selma Blair’ Makes the Actress and Activist Into the Leading Lady of Her Own Life

In August 2018, after years of self-professed “unhealthy” living and a litany of symptoms that scared the hell out of her, actress Selma Blair received a startling diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Suddenly, a lot made sense: the tremors that kept her from everyday living, the incipient terror that had often led her to drink, a leg that always seemed to want to drag behind her.

But with the diagnosis came different fears and worries, including the big one: Would she die from this?Blair, best known for her work in films like “Cruel Intentions” and “Legally Blonde” — a proud supporting actress, as she tells it — isn’t exactly resigned to her fate, and Rachel Fleit’s “Introducing, Selma Blair” lets that spirit, and all the emotions that come with it, frame this .

The film orients Blair as the leading lady of her own life, a brash and hilarious presence who is

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