Apple TV+ By Victoria Uwumarogie ·Updated November 4, 2021
When Mahershala Ali first read the script for award-winning filmmaker Benjamin Cleary’s Swan Song, the story grabbed him, pulled him in and wouldn’t let him go. He knew he had to be a part of taking it from page to screen.
“From the first time I read it, the story just felt unprecedented,” he tells ESSENCE. “I hadn’t seen anything like that before.
