Mahershala Ali finally puts his ‘Blade’ training to use in ‘Your Mother’

TORONTO – Marvel film fans were stoked when Mahershala Ali was cast in “Blade” and summarily let down when that inspired casting didn't come to fruition.

No one was more disappointed than Ali, who’d already been waiting several years for his action-movie moment. The two-time Oscar winner didn’t get to play a super-cool, butt-kicking vampire hunter, but he does get to use his “Blade” training as a widowed Muslim hitman with awesome fight skills in “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” (in select theaters Sept. 25, expanding nationwide in October).

It’s rare for an action movie to “require you to go deep, because some of it can be stunt porn, so to speak, or it's so much about the action and the story is somewhere in the back,” Ali tells USA TODAY a day after the movie’s world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.

He doesn’t even necessarily think of “Your Mother” as being in the genre, “but it's required of me to be ready for the action at any given moment. And I'm glad to have finally had the opportunity to sort of not only exercise that desire but also those muscles.”

Directed by Bassam Tariq, “Your Mother” stars…

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