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Mahershala Ali and <em>GLOW</em>: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

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Carvell Wallace | “In our interviews, I notice that Ali uses the phrase ‘fold into yourself’ a lot, the same phrase that came up in his SAG acceptance speech. It’s not until our last 10 minutes together that I ask him about it. Standing outside in downtown Los Angeles, now exposed to the stares of people who slow down when they pass, some trying surreptitiously to take pictures, he pauses before he answers ... ‘I think I identify with characters who have to make themselves smaller,’

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