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The audience you may need someday

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Actress Tatiana Maslany recently called Tom Selleck and Michael Jordan “cowardly” for keeping politics out of much of their work. Some readers may ask: Who? If all art is political, as Maslany says, then let the art speak. Give us a performance powerful enough to make us listen. Maslany won an Emmy for “ Orphan Black ” and starred in Marvel’s “ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. ” That is a career many actors would envy. Selleck and Jordan, however, are household names whose audiences have stayed with them for decades. I wonder whether Maslany has thought much about why. On Mehdi Hasan’s show, Maslany argued that all entertainment is political. Selleck had explained that he saw little sense in alienating half the country when his job was to entertain it. Jordan’s famous line about Republicans buying sneakers made much the same point. Maslany called that kind of restraint cowardly. Fame and money can make anyone feel invulnerable. At the height of their fame, Selleck and Jordan could have told