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The filmmaker reveals she bonded with Blair immediately over a Zoom call, during which she confessed to the actress that she has lived with an autoimmune disease of her own, alopecia universalis.

\"Selma was like, 'You’re bald and I have MS! And so, what are we going to do about it?' We just sort of had this instantaneous bond … I can’t explain it.\"

Fleit tells the trade, \"The thing that I learned from her, you know we have to embrace ourselves ... We've got ... one life in this body and whether or not you have an autoimmune disorder or disease or not, we must embrace ourselves ... She shows us what it means to just be grateful for what we have.\"

The documentary will run at the festival, and later on the streaming service Discovery+.

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