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Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07). His first major film role was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He gained wider attention for supporting roles in the final two films of the original The Hunger Games film series and in House of Cards, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). He is the first Black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category and the second Black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020). In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective, and in 2020, he starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the first season of the Netflix series Luke Cage (2016) and voiced Aaron Davis in the animated films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Film inspired by Cosmic Horror style from the film Annihilation and the books of Lovecraft : Adrian Eriksen, a prestigious American government scientist, sees his partner die violently in an accident during their vacation, his face exploding against a rock because he did not dive from the top of a cliff far enough. To take his mind off things, Adrian accepts when he is asked to carry out a top secret mission on the ice floe where, in an underground/aquatic station, the piece of a titanic creature several km in size emerges from the ground. It is so immense that its shape is unidentifiable and it even seems to extend to the core of the Earth. In fact, even worse: the creature seems to have merged with the Earth or even to be an organic outgrowth of it. Scientific measurements say the creature appears to be from such a long time ago that their devices cannot assimilate such a figure. The material which composes it is also unidentifiable and soon we discover a fault in the ice which leads straight into a cave located in the brain of the creature, traversed by a strange synaptic energy which alters reality and time, making Adrian see his husband whose face is gradually becoming distorted. The energy regenerates meat and allows a member of the crew to continue living even though his brain no longer exists, he is devoured from the inside by an energy parasite.
