The Cut - Auli’i Cravalho Embraces Her Power

Auli’i Cravalho treks through the Lower East Side on a cold and rainy spring morning, bundled in a fitted black puffer coat and a thick gray scarf and snapping a few quick photos of the empty skate park where we intended to meet before we navigate to Golden Diner, a Chinatown staple. She’s worked up an appetite after a few days of press obligations for The Power, a Prime Video series based on Naomi Alderman’s science-fiction novel of the same name, and would rather get cozy indoors. “Now this is more normal,” says Cravalho as we make our roundabout way to the diner with her close childhood friend turned assistant, Kai, in tow. “This is what I would do with my friends.”

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