Mahershala Ali on playing a sensitive Muslim hitman: ‘All I can do is spiritualise my characters’

Four years after their planned collaboration on a ‘Blade’ movie fell apart, Mahershala Ali reconnected with filmmaker Bassam Tariq for ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’, a thriller about faith and family. Louis Chilton speaks to both men about the making of one of this year’s most startlingly original films