2/24/2023 0 Comments The looming tower![]() ![]() Maybe 50 percent of the parts I was offered were terrorists, and the others were stereotypical people. “So I came to America and spent two years trying to get work. ![]() And as long as you can speak another language, you should try. “My vision of cinema is that we can do this all over the world. “I always like to work with foreign directors, and I don’t want to be an actor of just one country,” he said. Although the French actor with Algerian ancestry had made a name for himself in such notable European films as Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet” and Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past,” he had spent fruitless years trying to land acceptable English-language projects.Īlso Read: 'The Looming Tower' Author Warns Political Division That Led to 9/11 Flourishes Now In fact, Rahim had complained about exactly that in the past. “He said, ‘And if you don’t accept this role, you will never again have the right to complain that you only get offers to play terrorists,'” Rahim said, laughing. When Tahar Rahim first met Ali Soufan, the real-life former FBI agent he plays in Hulu’s gripping limited series “The Looming Tower,” Soufan hit him with a pointed parting shot. ![]() A version of this story about Tahar Rahim first appeared in the Miniseries/Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. ![]()
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