He's been doing excellent (and, in Moonlight, Oscar-winning) work on the big screen, but Mahershala Ali first broke out in TV via House Of Cards. And while his cinema career continues to thrive, he's pondering a return to the goggle box with word from The Tracking Board that he's in early talks to star in the third season of True Detective.
After a successful first season, the HBO crime anthology series created by Nic Pizzolatto suffered critical slings and arrows and much less cultural buzz for the second, and development appeared to go very quiet on any third run of episodes. But back in March this year, the news broke that Pizzolatto was throwing himself back into early work on a possible follow-up, with NYPD Blue and Deadwood man David Milch stepping aboard to offer the benefit of his experience in both cop series and HBO shows.
And though there has been no official notice from HBO yet, Ali even being in talks – his deal is far from done – is a sign that things are moving forward again. Who wouldn't be intrigued to see what he could bring to the show?
Those needing more Ali in their lives can see him in movies such as Roxanne Roxanne and Alita: Battle Angel (20 July next year), and he'll voice a character in the animated Spider-Man movie that Sony is at work on.
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