Look Middle Eastern? Movie Roles Galore!
Actors who look Middle Eastern and don’t mind playing villains can work steadily, according to Nick Timiraos in the WSJ. Allegedly this is a problem for those who don’t want to be stereotyped or seen as “perpetuating a negative image of Middle Easterners”.
FBLA recalls the old joke–wanna hear an actor complain? Give him a job.
The Arab-American community also weighs in on the writing of such roles, such as in 24, where two years ago, the the “Arab next door” was a terrorist and in this season’s premiere, when a Middle Eastern terror leader detonated a nuclear bomb in a Los Angeles suburb.
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