The Moonlight actor has topped his Oscar win with a Golden Globe for Green Book.
He talks about fatherhood, being a Muslim in Trump’s America and years of typecastingExactly two years ago, in early 2017, the actor Mahershala Ali and his wife were about to give birth – one after the other.
“It’s something we still joke about,” says the 44-year-old American, sitting in a London hotel, smiling at the memory.
“My wife was pregnant with a baby.
And I was pregnant with an Oscar.”The actor knows that sounds glib.
He knows that however exciting or worked-for an industry prize – Ali won his best supporting actor award that year for a standout performance in the coming-of-age drama Moonlight – nothing compares to the graft of bearing an actual child.
But aspects of the comparison stand.
There’s a lot of build-up and then things go crazy all at once.
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