It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.
Mahershala AliGetting to St. Mary's College was a big deal for me because that essentially led to me getting to go to NYU.
Mahershala AliIn my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.
Mahershala AliIt was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't.
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