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The movie is based on Mendoza’s own experiences during the Iraq war and is slightly fictionalized to protect some platoon members’ identities.

I had never read it but knew it was set in a fictionalized Civil Rights-era Birmingham.

Trump, of course, played a fictionalized version of himself on “The Apprentice,” beginning in 2004.

Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel Academy, and unearthed emotions so beautiful that he won a Pulitzer Prize.

She credits much of her fearlessness as a performer to her time spent on the Hulu series “The Great,” on which she played a fictionalized version of Russian empress Catherine the Great.