Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?" Jessup spits from the witness stand. "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said 'thank you' and went on your way."

Differently agonising was Our Children (2012), a superb but harrowing drama about a couple (he's Moroccan, she's Belgian) undergoing extreme meltdown brought on partly by cultural difference. Rahim rolls his eyes. "Phew! It was tough. But I keep a distance from my characters. I'm not one of those actors who becomes another person to make a film, and I'm not sure they exist anyway. I work in the moment – when I'm there I believe in it, and when I go home, I'm me." Tahar did his baccalauréat from Lycée Condorcet, Belfort (also known as General And Technological High School Condorcet De Belfort). In 2000, Tahar admitted himself to a sports college in Strasbourg, where he pursued his major in swimming. Soon, he found himself bored and quit the course after a year. The following year, he pursued a computer science course at a college in Marseille; he got bored again and dropped out in two months. Realizing his passion for acting, he began his film studies at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France. [1] MensXP [2] Madame Le Figaro Physical AppearanceBy the final torture scenes, Rahim felt like he was hallucinating, he says: “I almost saw my own mum in the cell. And I said to Kevin: ‘I can only do one more take; I’m sorry, I can’t do it twice.’ And then I collapsed.” Did he recover OK? “Yes. I ate like a pig.” He lets out a laugh, but the experience stayed with him: “Usually, it’s harder for me to get into my characters than to get out of them. But this time, it took me three weeks to get out of Mohamedou. I can’t explain why.” Female Filmmakers Lead Nominees For London Critics' Circle Film Awards". Deadline. 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 20 January 2021. Annual Awards (2014)". Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films. 16 March 2014 . Retrieved 5 April 2023.

But while Camp X-Ray perpetuates negative stereotypes about Muslim detainees, The Report dehumanises them entirely. Scott Z Burns' legal drama is based on the true story of Dan Jones, played by Adam Driver, the lead investigator on the Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report, which documented the CIA's rendition, detention, and interrogation program from 2002 to 2008. Jones is portrayed as the 'white knight' exposing the American public to the truth about torture practices, including waterboarding, that were used against accused al-Qaeda members like Abu Zubaydah (Zuhdi Boueri). Reportedly the first prisoner to undergo enhanced interrogation techniques, following his capture in Pakistan in 2002, Zubaydah continues to be detained without trial by the US authorities.The same year, he appeared in the French-Chinese film ‘Love and Bruises’ in the lead role of ‘Mathieu.’ I’m not looking to get even with anyone in my life’ ... Mohamedou Ould Slahi in Nouakchott, Mauritania, after being released from Guantánamo. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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Waterboarding, Starvation, and Great Acting: Tahar Rahim Could Be In the Oscar Race". IndieWire. 7 January 2021 . Retrieved 20 January 2021. The system is the villain and we see the system acting upon people,” says Kevin Macdonald, the film’s director. “I wanted to show the legal side of it for a number of reasons. One, because I think we all felt that spending two hours in Guantánamo would be really, really difficult dramatically and would be very difficult for an audience to watch. But, second, because it feels like the story of what the lawyers did is a major part of Mohamedou’s narrative. It’s not the book that he wrote … this is a story about the breaking of the rule of law. That’s really what, ultimately, it becomes.” 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. Without knowing Tahar Rahim’s biography, his origins are hard to point to on first impression. The French-Algerian actor is one of world cinema’s chameleons, having made a reputation for burying himself in a mixed-chocolate box of characters that have different motives and speak many languages. When we do meet, Tahar greets me with a gravelly New York accent. His features are Mediterranean. His clothes are Japanese. He is, of course, French—born in the suburbs of Belfort. Child, Ben (22 December 2009). " An Education heads London critics' shortlist". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 April 2023.

Tartaglione, Nancy (17 January 2010). "Philippe Lioret's Welcome takes best film Lumiere Award". Screen Daily . Retrieved 11 April 2023. After The Serpent, he will be alongside Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Mauritanian, out in February. He plays Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held without charge in Guantánamo Bay for 14 years. Along with The Looming Tower, this suggests a bold philosophy emerging in his choices. What does he want his body of work to say about him? “If I can be part of a piece of cinema that teaches people something,” he says, “I’ll be happy.”In addition to placing these men beyond the reach of US law, imprisoning them at Guantánamo placed them beyond the reach of the US imagination." Tahar Rahim is of Algerian descent and belongs to an immigrant family of Oran, Algeria. [3] Vanity Fair Parents & Siblings As much as everybody. The pictures that were all over the news about what the guards were doing to their detainees. So, I knew about it. And, at that moment, it was a couple of years ago, I knew that something very bad was happening over there. So, we knew it, but not precisely. I never get the chance to really dig in and do some research. I did that while I was preparing this movie, otherwise, I didn’t know that much. And I never heard about Mohamedou before, never heard of him or the book. Nominations announced for the RTS Programme Awards 2022". Royal Television Society. 3 March 2022 . Retrieved 11 April 2023.