Mahershala Ali Wins Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for 'Green Book' | Golden Globes 2019 - video Dailymotion

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Ali won his first career Golden Globe for his supporting role in 'Green Book.' He was previously nominated for his supporting role in 'Moonlight,' for which he went on to win the Oscar.

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00:00hi how you doing and thank you thank you how are you doing today I'm well thank you

00:15you play some amazing characters very powerful can you just walk me through very quickly like

00:21how do you prepare you know your characters have so many layers like what's the day in

00:25life in terms of you getting into the depth of who they are you know I I think about that a lot

00:32from the standpoint of I have so much anxiety that I have to manage once I say yes because I

00:39only say yes to something that makes me uncomfortable you know so it's got to be

00:43something that I when I when I get a script and and the little ego in me you know pops his collar

00:50and says oh I could do that that's the job I say no to so I usually say yes to the jobs that

00:55that scare me to some degree and I do all my preparation from from working with the speech

01:02coach who I've had the honor to work with in the last two jobs Denise Woods or losing some weight

01:08gaining a little bit doing the piano training or what what have you and but at the end of the day

01:13I know when I get in my trailer and I step on set no matter how how well I have my lines memorized

01:19that I just feel so nervous and nude at that point and all that work sort of goes out the window and

01:26for me the only thing that really calms me is prayer and meditation and so that's my technique

01:31what's your favorite author and is there any book from your favorite author character that you would

01:37like to portray oh my favorite author wow well uh my favorite book is Khalil Jumran the prophet

01:44um and in terms of like books I I haven't found I haven't found that there's a couple of books that

01:53I want to do that I don't want to I don't want to speak on because I've done that before then there's

01:57an announcement a week later somebody else doing it but uh but my favorite book is Khalil Gibran's the prophet

02:07yes how you doing great how are you I'm well thank you great um I'm wondering how it feels to win

02:15knowing that the family of Dr. Shirley has objected to the film um

02:20um well I will say this that my job is always the same and I have to look at what I'm responsible for

02:31doing and all the prayers and energy and time and work like I'm not one who is is gonna necessarily

02:40throw all that away um over things that I have no control over and have nothing to do with so

02:46I respect the family I respect Dr. Shirley and his family and I wish them well um and I I have a job

02:55to do and I have to continue to do my job as I move on to my next project and and treat everyone that

03:00I work with uh with respect and um in this case I didn't know that they were around and I've made

03:08contact and I've spoken to the studio and everyone and and I have to move on uh at this point but I do wish

03:15them well and and at the end of the day you wish everybody was happy in any situation you don't

03:20want anybody to be upset about anything or be offended in any capacity you know and so uh so I wish them

03:27well and and and and send my love um and I hope they receive it yeah congratulations on yet another win

03:37in your career thank you how would you describe the last two years in terms of having amazing roles

03:43winning an Oscar winning tonight uh all the great prospects has it been great for you it it has been

03:50remarkable um and in in a real in a real positive challenge in terms of just trying to balance other

03:59things in my life I seeing my mom and my grandmother and you know every time I'd see my daughter I feel like

04:05she grew an inch or two and they're in the house with me you know but you're just gone all day so

04:11the challenging thing in it is that with the success um and the opportunity uh what comes with that is

04:20that there's a tax on one's family life you know um but in my case I'm I'm just I'm very fortunate to have

04:29loved ones and people who are are very supportive of of what I'm doing and it gives me the energy to go

04:35out there and try to try to do a better job the next time out

04:41Mr Ali yes thank you brother thank you we spoke uh a couple weeks ago promoting

04:49true detective and you talked about the transition uh of going from supporting actor to me yes do you

04:57feel that you know you're just one for supporting yeah you're starting true detective next week

05:04essentially yeah do you feel a transition happening right now well I I feel there was a time not too

05:12long ago when I would never get an offer to lead a project and I still get some supporting offers to

05:19this day you know um so I think for me it's just really about sitting back and waiting for the best

05:27opportunity whether that be a supporting role or or a lead role but uh wanting to play characters that

05:34have dimensionality and depth and are complex and that are challenging uh for me and so um I think the

05:44the shift is that for me the clear shift is having an idea and presenting that to an h hbo or studio and

05:58them saying yes we would like to support that or get behind that and I've worked in this business a long

06:03time and within the last couple years I've I've made some some wonderful allies and they're people who have

06:09been supportive of of my ideas and trying to get those off the ground and and so I think that will

06:15add to the shift in terms of of how present I get to be in a story and even what stories I get to tell

06:24uh to some degree moving forward as I I get to dip in and out of producing uh in the future god willing

06:30thank you oh well Herschela Kelly Carter I'm here to your right hi Kelly

06:34hi Kelly and because of that I feel like I'm going to ask a question no one else in the room is going

06:39to ask okay let's do it in college you played uh you played basketball you're a former athlete um what

06:44does that kind of uh what is that like playing organized ball and I know how you how you left it

06:49in the circumstances you left it under how does that translate or how does that help you kind of

06:53navigate the Hollywood space especially as you're kind of collecting awards and having a really nice

06:58drive in this industry um thank you um I I think I grew up playing team sports my first sport I was

07:10a BMX racer which is not a team sport but after that I was basically always playing team sports so

07:16I've I've never really understood accomplishing anything without the help of a lot of other people

07:22and um so in this case from Viggo Mortensen to Pete Fairley but also Chris Bowers who who doubled

07:31for me and was the composer and I'm so upset that I forgot to I was it was a so much was happening up

07:36on stage it's in my mind I forgot to thank Chris Bowers but but it's a team sport we can't do it without

07:44the other person and so it's your job to bring for me at least in my time playing it wasn't just about how

07:51hard you how hard you worked on the court or how much you scored but it was also about your attitude

07:57and the energy that you brought to the team and so I always try to be very conscious of my energy

08:02and what I bring into the room if I'm either of those who are helping to uplift the situation or or

08:10or doing something to take away from what um something can eventually turn into and I I don't

08:16ever want to be the latter thank you thank you thank you

Mahershala Ali Wins Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for 'Green Book' | Golden Globes 2019

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