Taher yeah Thank You children Thank You
Alma cavada bye
during the course of your career you
have worked with so many different
directors from different nationalities
how did that come about
do you seek them out or do they come to
you they come to me I have the the
chance to make a movie that has travel
all over the world I'm talking about a
prophet chuckle gently so I've been
known from different directors like this
and they came to me but the more they
came the more I try to go towards them
because I this is exactly the way I
thought my career before like I am I'd
like to share and I'd like to know more
about different cultures
do you watch international cinema or
you're opposed to it do you know these
directors with whom work
yeah those international director of
course I knew them before because I
studied cinema for three years at
university now you're working with
kiyoshi kurosawa the Japanese director
he's known to be a horror film director
yeah
how much did you know about him I
started him at school
Wow when I uh when I was studying in
cinema in Montpelier we had a court of a
homily and we started a couple of his
movies in town I would have liked it so
I was surprised and I felt like a
destiny thing when he called me yeah to
work with well he doesn't speak neither
French nor English now and you have
already done another movie with the ring
and director Oscar for Xavier also
doesn't speak neither English nor French
and another director in Lithonia also a
Chinese director Luo Yin oh that's right
they so are like it is how do you have
the communicators and don't you need the
directors instructions and communication
or is the delivery of perform so you
have the instruction you
everything but sometimes it's a it's too
straight depends on the translator you
have it is good if he understands the
the universe of the director so if not I
listen to their a translator and on what
my director because there's something
between the word between words that I
can get but with Asghar Farhadi and
Kiyoshi they were perfect it was like as
if the directors were were talking in
towards them but is it important to have
that language communication with a
director what would you expect from a
director well you would just rely on
your own imagination you know I need to
talk a lot with them before we shoot it
depends if they're one of rehearsals I
do it but I think that familiar also is
more about conversations and talking
about his a point of view what kind of
reference he has he wants me to have
what movies he wanted to see and if I if
my character needs a special stage on a
different work for example I did another
movie called the hill the living or when
I'm playing a coordinator a nurse
coordinator so I needed to go to
hospital for four months if I need that
I do it you to finally on my truth so I
do that but I talk a lot with it and we
talk about the relationship between the
different character ISM into the movie
because it's very important well in this
movie dagger type Kurosawa movie you
play a mysterious character we the
audience don't learn much about it yeah
how much do you know about him
how do you get it under his kids I did
but when I begun this this job I mean
acting I thought it was an obligation to
know everything about your character
this and that what he eats what it likes
with a woman's and things like that
sexual questions and blah blah blah but
you don't need everything you don't need
to know everything and sometimes it's
better to not know in this case me he
was like a normal young French guy he
tried to do something what school didn't
happen then he went to work and his a
nun working system I mean like we have
impressed you you if you don't have a
degrees it's hard to find a job so he
works here and there and he got this
opportunity to give money so he he just
grabbed it his parents lived in another
city I think he's a single son that's
what I said to myself so you created him
in your imagination you like that yeah I
want to bring you back to your most
memorable character Malik and profit I
don't know if you do with me but it was
an incredible role but you did was
really great I was so happy to do that
and of course that was an AB character
in France
how did not actually that roll that film
impact you on a personal and
professional wrestling it has changed
everything in my professional life of
course was my first feature so I'm so
glad that I had the opportunity to
portray Malik and to work with sarkodie
and the way the movie lives but lived
and still live today so I'm thankful and
professionally and I think after this
movie I could pick different projects so
I could choose which is a reaches for an
actor it's a real chance it's evidently
you are one of the rare Arab actors who
play lead we have more and more lead
characters a
other characters in France now that
changing yeah this is the interesting
thing about French cinema because in
Hollywood this is very rare and since
Omar Sharif Aparna they just vanished do
you think it's easier in France to the
there are more receptive to lead AB
characters than the rest of the world or
then Hollywood then Hollywood of course
because it's a part of our French
history you know immigration and there's
a moment where I mean cinema has to tell
the truth to people it has to show well
what's happening in the street I mean
that's the proper thing of movies and
depends you have John & Spell but it's a
point so you have to deal with that and
we have a prig arabic or black community
in france so you need to represent them
so it's getting better and better so in
addition to that you also play as here
in tiger tides you play a French guy
yeah and that's that's a novelty where
now I have actors are allowed to play
something other than a terrorist or a
refugee or an immigrant I see but it was
up for me it was not a question and
still not a question when I talk about
that with a different journalist I tell
them that we don't need to talk about
that because first I'm an actor
and I don't care if I'm maid Jean or I'm
ed or maybe highly in a movie I don't
care I big characters so if we talk
about that he'll write three lines about
it and I think that the best way to go
beyond that it should not talk about
that just talk about acting and that's
wonderful I mean you achieve that
directors has to be more open yes but
have have you tried entering the
Hollywood game and what kind of guy you
didn't have I did well after prophet I
had some offers from Hollywood but it
was a it was not what I was
it was sometimes terrorist thing and I
don't want to I don't want to defend
that and sometimes it was a also
different type of characters but it was
not interesting enough but now I'm gonna
work in a in a Hollywood movie in any
month Mary Magdalene exactly uh-huh so
uh it's good to be patient entering
Hollywood is one of your ambitions
working with great American directors is
one of my ambition we heat a lot of
things of that friends and about
Islamophobia in France how does that
affect you as a working Arab French in
my and my art my business it's not a
problem for me on the other side and in
the real life I'm a bit protected by my
position but what I know is that it's
hard for for the common people I know I
mean I'm talking about that my friends
people in France when or not in my
position it's nice if them well it since
you are a celebrity and you are
respected by the entire French people
and you're a part of the French culture
do they seek your advice do you do
anything you get involved in any social
issues and understanding no what I do
with my left hand my right hand hasn't
has to see it
that's the where I think talking talking
talking doesn't really help you need to
do something so if I can take care of
the people around me is the first step
and do you have any involvement in
Algerian cinema or Algeria no I'd love
to but I don't get big a lot are you a
dress
no good I think the industry there is a
it's not a little a movie there's to
make movies there that's what I think so
uh but if I have the chance to work with
an object director if it's a good I will
peek it as I pick French movies or
foreign movies
oopsie same way tyre thank you Tom and
thank you so much