Mahershala Ali: 'Green Book'
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"Green Book" star Mahershala Ali discusses portraying Dr. Don Shirley.Mahershala Ali has been on the rise since his Academy Award winning performance in 2016's "Moonlight". Today on The Treatment, the breakout actor joins Elvis to discuss working with silence in his performances and experiencing racism both personally and through the perspective of Dr. Don Shirley in "Green Book".
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You may know my guest, Mahershal Ali, from, let's see, Crossing Over, or Predators, or The Place Beyond |
| 0:21.2 | the Pines, or the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or you may know him from Crossing Jordan, |
| 0:26.1 | or House of Cards, or maybe a little label out of Oakland that I think has the best label |
| 0:32.3 | logo of any logo of all time. |
| 0:34.7 | That is an extraordinary logo. |
| 0:35.4 | By the way, Del told me that's actually an Egyptian hieroglyph. I think he found that out like 10 years after the fact. |
| 0:40.3 | He didn't know that. |
| 0:41.3 | He just was viving into that. |
| 0:42.3 | Wow. |
| 0:43.3 | Wow. |
| 0:44.3 | But if you really want a deep dish with my guest, Mahersh Laali, you should look at the year 2016, |
| 0:49.3 | where he went from Free State of Jones to Kicks, and culminating with Moonlight, an extraordinary group of performances that really marked him as one of the actors of our generation. |
| 1:01.7 | His newest film was an actor is Green Book, my guest, I'm Hirsch Lally. |
| 1:05.0 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:05.9 | Elvis, thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.2 | Completely my pleasure. |
| 1:08.2 | But that, because I met you from Moonlight, and I told you we had just shown kicks |
| 1:14.6 | at the Lackman where I run the film program. |
| 1:16.6 | And just those three performances, those three different guys, that really cemented for |
| 1:23.7 | me something I've talked with you about briefly that you tender your characters in terms |
| 1:27.3 | of their size. |
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