Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.
Mahershala AliMy parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.
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.
Mahershala AliI became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.
Mahershala Ali