i can play french, german, american mafia boss, i m pretty good at regional british accents, too. so, you were pushing this idea that you could be put into a pigeon hole, i think you have later said the ethnic scumbag. yes, that was one of my firstjokes. i am an arab scumbag specialist but in the bond film, i did play the second azerbaijani oil pipe attendant, which is a major departure for me in my career! but here you are, walking yourself into a pigeon hole. i love that, i love it when you get challenging! it wasn t that, it was back in the 90s when i started off, i felt it was the only way to get work because, you know, you see films where in another country, you ve got all these actors with high cheekbones and they were good looking, i realised i was a short, squat, iranian bloke. that is why i fought back with comedy by doing the show called i am a short fat kebab shop owner s son, because i look like a short fat kebab owner s son. as you can hearfrom my voice, there was a tall,
to which you would have then sort of played into that notion of being a bit weird, a bit of an outsider in your early profession? in the memoir, there is this fascinating letter that you recount you wrote to a talent agency, and it goes like this. you said to the agency, i think the way forward is to go down the ethnic bit part route, i am quite adept at accents, you said rather immodestly, iranian, afghani, turkish, pakistani, i could even play a russian commandant or a bulgarian gymnast trainer, a slovak border guard. i can play french, german, american mafia boss, i m pretty good at regional british accents, too. so, you were pushing this idea that you could be put into a pigeonhole, i think you have later said the ethnic scumbag. yes, that was one of my firstjokes. i am an arab scumbag specialist but in the bond film, i did play the second azerbaijani oil pipe attendant, which is a major departure for me in my career! but here you are, walking
i can play french, german, american mafia boss, i m pretty good at regional british accents, too. so, you were pushing this idea that you could be put into a pigeonhole, i think you have later set the ethnic scumbag. yes, that was one of my firstjokes. i am a scumbag specialist but in the bond film, i am an arab scumbag specialist but in the bond film, i did play the second azerbaijani oil pipe attendant, which is a major departure for me in my career! but here you are, walking yourself into a pigeonhole. i love that, i love it when you get challenging. it wasn t that, it was back in the 90s when i started off, i felt it was the only way to get work because, you know, you see films where in another country, you ve got all these actors with high cheekbones and they were good looking, i realised i was a short, squat, iranians bloke. that is why i fought back with comedy by doing the show called i am a short fat kebab shop owner s son, because i look like a short fat kebab owner s son.