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Tahar Rahim nominated for Golden Globes for "a true story worth telling"

2021-02-04T16:46:11.192Z


The César for best actor in 2010 for A Prophet is in the list of nominations for the American awards for his composition in Designated Guilty by Kevin Macdonald. He joined Florian Zeller there for the production of The father and Alexandre Desplat.


Between deprivation of food and simulated drowning, Tahar Rahim said he had experienced his “

most intense

shoot

on the set of

Designated Culpable.

This seems to increase tenfold his joy at being named Wednesday at the prestigious American Golden Globes, a ceremony often considered as the anteroom of the Oscars.

The 39-year-old French actor was nominated in the category "

best actor in a dramatic film

" for his role, therefore trying, in this film by Kevin Macdonald.

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In this feature film inspired by a true story, he plays Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian wrongly suspected of terrorism and locked up for fourteen years in Guantanamo.

His lawyer, who will release him by dint of judicial harassment against the American administration, is embodied by Jodie Foster (one of the great forgotten with Nicole Kidman of these appointments).

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Responding to AFP's questions after his nomination, the actor, who was awarded the title in 2010 for his formidable performance in

A Prophet

by Jacques Audiard, immediately defended Kevin Macdonald's film: “

It is a true story that deserves and must be told.

It is terrible what happened to this man, in whose heart reigns a message of forgiveness and peace.

This is the most important thing.

"



Accurately depicting the extreme conditions of detention on the American base installed on the island of Cuba, the shooting was"

the most intense I have ever done

", Tahar Rahim returned to his work as an actor:"

I had to physically transform myself, lose a lot of kilos in a very short time (...) which put me in a very particular emotional state.

"



And a real tour de force, this role demanded that he go to the depths of himself:"

The only way I found to make these terrible scenes of torture authentic was to make it a little bit 'experience.

To go to the closest.

What we see in the film, I did it for real.

I wore real handcuffs, I was in these cold cells, I was “waterboarded” (tortured by simulated drowning, editor's note) “forcefillé” (force-fed with food, editor's note).

"

Tahar Rahim "loves" working in the United States

On the screen, the actor revealed in 2009 in another film on the prison world,

“completely different”

according to him,

A Prophet

by Jacques Audiard, appears transformed, his cheeks hollow and his head shaved.

The French comedian, who also stars in the series

The Eddy

, said he “

loves

” working in the United States, but has no plans to move there.

He explains why:

“Playing in a foreign language is another way of interpreting.

The body, the face, move differently the use of the words is not the same, therefore the emotions and the interpretation of the character are necessarily different, and that is very interesting.

»



After the Golden Globes, the Oscars?

Tahar Rahim prefers not to think about it: “I

am going to live the present moment, I don't want to spoil it.

"But he keeps a dream:

" I would love to find myself in a western. "

On the side of the good guys or the bad guys?

"We'll see when we get there

," he replied, a smile on his face.

In any case, he will not be the only Frenchie to be nominated this year.

For his first feature film

The Father

, with the immense Anhony Hopkins, adapted from his own play, Florian Zeller is nominated four times (Best Dramatic Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay).

Accustomed to American ceremonies, the composer Alexandre Desplat will celebrate his ninth nomination for the soundtrack of

The Midnight Sky.

Designated guilty

(

The Mauritanian

) by Kevin Macdonald, in 2021, the script is inspired

by Mohamedou Ould Slahi's

Guantanamo Diary

, with Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Source: lefigaro

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