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In one of the villages of the Tabuk region in northwestern Saudi Arabia, 14-year-old Omar seemed confident about an on-screen character he would portray in an international movie being filmed nearby. The teenager, who had never acted or attended the shooting of a film or TV series, finally found his passion when the movie’s producers descended on his hometown. He