EXCLUSIVE: 'Moonlight' Star Mahershala Ali Is Ready to Carry the Story. At over 6 feet tall, Mahershala Ali cuts a sharp figure, one. But it was his turn on Netflix’s House of. Cards as Remy Danton, the smooth lobbyist with a hand in everyone’s pocket.

Now, Ali is garnering overdue attention for his villainous. Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes on Netflix’s Luke Cage, plus high- profile roles in the critical darling Moonlight and the upcoming Hidden Figures. And while Ali’s success. HBO’s Treme to the final two Hunger Games films), as Malcolm Gladwell. Hollywood’s need to combat its historically whitewashed casting. Ali who. have been amazing the whole time. Ali was born in Oakland, California, and raised in the.

Hayward and his father was a Broadway actor working in New. York City. Jumping between the Bay Area and Harlem to visit his dad, Ali’s. One of the first Broadway.

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I saw was Angels in America with. Jeffrey Wright. I saw Dreamgirls. I was an athlete who saw dancing and singing as. I had to do to act,” he says.

I could dance a little bit but I can’t. Back home, Ali was a high school basketball star who won a. St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. He began acting during. New York University’s Tisch.

School of the Arts, where he began cobbling together a career of smaller roles that. Photo: Getty Images. From a Law & Order. Crossing Jordan and the science fiction.

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The 4. 40. 0, Ali built a legacy. Predators, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Place Beyond the Pines - - until. Netflix’s breakout political thriller House. Cards drew him into the spotlight and garnered him an Emmy nomination. But like any artist who chases growth, Ali knew he had to let Remy go. Feeling. the conflicted D.

C. character had run his course, Ali found the time to do the. I was living in Berkeley and traveling back and forth to. L. A. when I saw Medicine for. Melancholy,” Ali says. To see a film touch on gentrification and the. I was used to seeing greenlit. It was refreshing, and I.

Barry Jenkins movie!”Moonlight follows. Chiron, a gay boy growing up in Miami’s projects with a drug- addled mother - - though. Black masculinity, gray areas, complex. Chiron as a. little boy, a tragic teen and a quiet adult. Ali plays Juan, a drug dealer who. Chiron running from bullies and takes him under his wing.

The. actor wore a grill on his bottom teeth and a do- rag as part of his uniform. Remy wasn’t a distraction,” he says - - and. Photo: A2. 4 Films.

Eventually, Chiron - - played by Alex Hibbert in the first. Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes - - realizes that Juan, who.

In the same scene, unsure about his own sexuality, Chiron. Juan responds kindly. It’s that kind of. Ali loves. “Alex, Ashton and even Trevante all have a very. Ali of his costars, all of whom are newcomers, “and really work from the inside. So in working off of them, it just. The danger for me is having worked for.

I’ve got my little armor, the things that I naturally go. My task is to make these people human,” Ali says of digging. Juan. “Often the characters in my acting experience. I’m always fighting to find the. I can wedge an opening and make the character real. That’s. a muscle a lot of people of color have to work to be successful in this. Oh, this brother’s got it.’”MORE: 'Luke Cage' Star Mike Colter Promises Satisfying Origin Story.

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With Oscar buzz surrounding Moonlight, Ali’s also drawing attention for his multifaceted. Harlem club owner Ali has previously described as a Godfather type on Luke Cage.

Drawn from the 1. Notorious. screenwriter Cheo Hodari Coker.

Ali drew on his days with his dad in Harlem for. Coker, one pivotal scene truly brought Cottonmouth. Ali became Cottonmouth on the roof, and it affected the way. Watch Believe Online Full Movie. Coker says. of the crucial moment in episode two that sees Ali’s character confronting his. A. resolved Stokes erupts in anger when one of them refers to him by a nickname. Some actors. need to get to a real place where they’re living the character. In that scene. Mahershala goes through a number of movements and the whole ‘My name’s not.

Cottonmouth’ is written as him screaming it, but he initially kept delivering. It’s the only thing I ever spoke to him about but the director. Paul Mc. Guigan, told me to lay back. Finally, on the second- to- last take. Mahershala yelled, ‘My name is not Cottonmouth!’ and everyone was like, ‘Oh sh*t!’”. Photo: Netflix. Like playing a tough- but- kind drug dealer trying to make.

The 4. 40. 0, Ali plucks characters from the. Mahershala doesn’t take the bass out of. Coker. “You’re fitting into his.“Like Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington and Morgan. Freeman, he’s building something with roles like Remy, then Cottonmouth and now. Moonlight,” says Coker. Following last year’s #oscarssowhite controversy, when no.

Academy Awards’ acting categories. Black Lives Matter social justice movement. Hollywood heavyweights. UCLA’s 2. 01. 6. Hollywood Diversity Report.

In the breakdown compiled by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, researchers found that while. Today, in almost a wave of onscreen color, projects like Empire, Black- ish, How to Get Away. With Murder, Atlanta, Insecure and Queen Sugar are drawing large audiences as well as critical. When Netflix experienced an outage the weekend following the release. Luke Cage’s first season, fans and even Coker. In times like these, actors like Ali are attractive candidates for leading.

Since leaving House. Cards, there’s been a real shift in opportunities because of my.

Ali says cautiously, even though his three biggest. Moonlight, Luke Cage and Hidden Figures - - are all telling black stories.

I’m happy to finally. I’ve wanted to do since I. I’ve just had yet to have that opportunity.

Now it’s about picking the. Barry, I’m not necessarily about getting it right. For Ali, his moment is right on time.

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Adele - Wikipedia. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. MBE (; born 5 May 1. English singer- songwriter.

After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2. Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2. 00. 7, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBCSound of 2. Her debut album, 1. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album contains her first song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 1. West Norwood in London.

An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2. US. At the 5. 1st Grammy Awards in 2. Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She released her second studio album, 2.

The album was critically well received and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2. Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 1. UK, and is overall the fourth best- selling album in the nation. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1. The album has sold over 3.

The success of 2. Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records. She was the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 1.

Billboard 2. 00 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 1. UK and US Album Charts. In 2. 01. 2, Adele released "Skyfall", which she co- wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British Single of the Year.

After taking a three- year break, Adele released her third studio album, 2. It became the year's best- selling album and broke first- week sales records in the UK and US. US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards. The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2. Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in late June 2.

In 2. 01. 1, 2. 01. Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2. 01. 2, she was listed at number five on VH1's 1. Greatest Women in Music.

Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2. With sales of more than 1. Adele is one of the best- selling music artists of all time.[4]Early life[edit]Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1. Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans.[5] Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her.[6][7] She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.[8][9] Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading; the last book she read was Roald Dahl's Matilda when she was six years old.[1. In 1. 99. 7, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult- learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England.[1.

In 1. 99. 9, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London.[1. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2. Leona Lewis and Jessie J.[1][1. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent[1. A& R and hoped to launch other people's careers.[1]2.

Beginnings and 1. Teenaged Adele performing on an acoustic guitar in Kilburn, London, in 2. Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication Platforms.

Magazine. com.[1. She had recorded a three- song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.[1] The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting.[1. Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2.

Dickins became her official representative.[1. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer- songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, "My Yvonne," for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 1.

In June 2. 00. 7, Adele made her television debut, performing "Daydreamer" on the BBC's Later.. Jools Holland.[2. Watch Darkness Rising Dailymotion. Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2. By 2. 00. 8, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice.[2. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards. Critics' Choice and was named the number- one predicted breakthrough act of 2.

BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2. The album 1. 9, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one.

The Times. Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 1. She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 1. January 2. 00. 8, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 1. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks.[2. Adele was nominated for a 2. Mercury Prize award for 1.

She also won an Urban Music Award for "Best Jazz Act."[2. She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act[2. Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female.[3.

In March 2. 00. 8, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States.[3. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month,[3. US in June.[1. 5]Billboard magazine stated of it: "Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation."[3. The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2. June 2. 00. 9.[3. Adele performing live in 2. She later cancelled the 2.

US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend.[3. She said in Nylon magazine in June 2. I'm like, 'I can't believe I did that.' It seems so ungrateful.. I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, I'll just cancel my stuff then.'"[3. She referred to this period as her "early life crisis".[3. She is also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her native London.[3.

By the middle of October 2. Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed.[3. But then she was booked as the musical guest on the 1. October 2. 00. 8 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice- presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 1. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder,"[3. Watch The Cook The Thief His Wife &Amp; Her Lover IMDB there.

Tunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon. Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 2.

The album reached number 1. Billboard 2. 00 as a result, a jump of 3. In November 2. 00. Adele moved to Notting Hill, London after leaving her mother's house, a move that prompted her to give up drinking.[4.

The album was certified gold in February 2. RIAA.[4. 2] By July 2. At the 5. 1st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2.

Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[4. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" at the ceremony in a duet with Jennifer Nettles.