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Rahim also starred in controversial Chinese director Lou Ye's film Love and Bruises. The director, twice banned from making movies by the Chinese government, likely met Rahim at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where they were each presenting Spring Fever and A Prophet respectively. Love and Bruises is the adaptation of the banned biography of Jie Liu Falin. And if the role is in English, so much the better. “I feel freer acting in English. Your face moves differently, your mouth, even your body. It makes you forget about the habits you used to have as an actor. It puts your soul in a different place, so you rediscover what you were at the very beginning.” Which was? He grins and swivels in his chair again. “A virgin.” It's only five years since A Prophet transformed Rahim's life – for one thing, he is now married to Leïla Bekhti, another rising French star, who acted with him in that film. But his marriage is another subject he declines to discuss. "Don't take it personally!" he says in English, grinning and putting his hand on my wrist to signify no hard feelings. He starred in various French-Belgian co-produced films like Our Children (2012), Le Père Noël (2014), Daguerrotype (also Japanese; 2016), and Heal the Living (2016). He also made appearances in several internationally co-produced films like The Past (2013), The Cut (2014), Mary Magdalene (2018), and The Kindness of Strangers (2019). In 2021, Tahar Rahim was cast in the lead role of ‘Mohamedou Ould Slahi’ in the American-British legal film ‘The Mauritanian.’ The film is based on the real-life person Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was captured by the US government without any charges, kept at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and deprived of trial for fourteen years. Tahar was widely appreciated for his portrayal of Slahi. While talking about the preparation of the role in an interview, Tahar Rahim said, Ultimately, though, he became as appalled as Hollander at the way his country was obtaining inadmissible evidence from Slahi and other Guantánamo inmates through “enhanced interrogation” techniques. Some have criticised The Mauritanian for once again letting the US off the hook by portraying them as the good guys.

As for whether his experience making The Looming Tower has changed his idea about working in Hollywood, he notes that he’s booked another English-language role in a movie. “I opened up the script and the name of my character is Mark – nothing exotic, just Mark,” he says. “So yeah, maybe things are changing.” (Before that, he’ll be onscreen in the upcoming biblical drama Mary Magdalene,playing Judas Iscariot.) He also mentions that, right after A Prophet made him instantly famous throughout France and won him the country’s equivalent of the Oscar for both Best Actor and Most Promising Actor, the experience offered him two paths. British Academy Film Awards (2021)". British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved 5 April 2023. A good actor friend told me once when you play a king, you’d better not play the king. You let your surroundings play that you are the king. So I self-isolated, to really concentrate and also to really create that right kind of mood and atmosphere.” What did that mean exactly? “I didn’t talk to anyone, off camera. I wouldn’t look at them. Wouldn’t answer them if they spoke to me. I couldn’t. I needed that tension. And to find some kind of truth.” How long did this last? “About four or five weeks, then I relaxed. Then it all started to flow. At some point you can feel the machine is on its way. To me Charles [Sobhraj] was an animal. A cobra. He would observe. Then strike. No warning.”

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TOWN, MAN ABOUT. "Interview with French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim". MAN ABOUT TOWN . Retrieved 24 April 2023. In 2015, he was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival [10] and later starred in the European crime drama television series The Last Panthers. [11]

Female Filmmakers Lead Nominees For London Critics' Circle Film Awards". Deadline. 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 20 January 2021. In 2018, he appeared as Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson. [12] In the U.S., he had a starring role as FBI agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower.When this story is mentioned to Futterman and Lawrence Wright later on, they exchange a look and fill in the part that Rahim doesn’t mention. “Ali knew he was going to meet with Tahar, so he read up on him, watched his movies, all of his interviews – that’s how good an FBI agent he is,” Futterman says. “And when