Alexander Siddig

0:07I miss you guys. Just a couple more sites and I'll be on my way home. Peter, say God, I caught you. Moon is gonna miss you, Damascus. Moon is the last time you spoke to her. Six days now. Six days. Can you direct me to the Embassy, please? I like to leave a message. Mr. Deep, Abdul Karim is back in Damascus. My daughter's gonna miss you. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate it. It's my pleasure. So the premiere is tonight? Yep. Have you seen it yet? Yeah, I saw a date for you today, but you don't see it. You're watching yourself. And it's exactly. You're just seeing tons of photographs of yourself one after nine. And if you see one, I don't like seeing one photograph of myself.

0:54Let's start with Riva. How did the two of you create a dude? She created a creative deep. She gets all the credit for that. She came up to me when we were shooting another film called Chira Time about three years ago. And she said, I've got another part for you. I wrote it for you before I wrote this one. Well, kind of at the same time. Will you do it, please? Pretty, please. And I was like, sure, sure. Have you looked at the script? You just said sure. I would have said sure because it's her. Because there's a point you know that someone is going to be reliable, that you would like to see the world through her prism again, the way she sees the world. And she is such an extraordinary character. Such a kind of weird person. A person who's really wise and really young and really old and really confusing. Anyway, where are you? How are you seeing it? And this is what her movies seem to be like to me. I was like, yeah, sure. And you know what? It's an action picture.

1:42Or a kind of action thriller. I don't know how you describe it, but it's certainly formula. How are you going to do a new take on an old song? I'm curious to see how you do a cover. So who is a deed for people who don't know? He's a father. He's a man. An ordinary man actually. Really wouldn't read. He's a computer analyst. In a bank he does stuff that everybody else does. Tries to do. Tries to make a buck. Tries to get by. Tries to put his kids through school. But he had a secret secret. He was a serious born in Syria and had a secret pastor. He was an intelligence agent. Naively. But it was a job. So he got through an ambitious mix up and through a set of Machiavellian incidents.

2:27He ended up being accused of being this really spy and thrown out country and was sentenced to death in absentia. So that he hid from his children and that he hid from his wife. At least as far as we know. And so his kids being curious kids as often curious kids are. Snipped around into his past background and one of his daughters took on herself to go and have a look in Syria where he was from. And the trouble begins. What was it like shooting? I wonder because cry over time was I heard very guerrilla style, very hand held. Yeah. Kind of shooting when you could without getting arrested and these things. This must have been a little different. Yeah, this was difficult and different in a certain way that it was very physical.

3:12And because there was not really very much money. And there was certainly not many people in South Africa who looked like me. There's no stunt doubles or anything like that. We had to do a lot of physical stuff and get thrown around and get run over and drive cars into things at speed. And there was a truck I think it got turned over and so you fall from the floor to the ceiling which happens at speed. You can actually get away with these in America or in Canada or England or any of the places that I normally film. Because they're just simply not allowed on insurance. Right. That makes sense. So it was seriously physical. You're the leading actor? You got to look good. You can't have cut to versatile. There was no consideration of that at all. That's amazing. Well I can't wait for everyone to see this movie. It's fantastic and you're awesome in it.

3:58Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks. The daughter is a spy. You're a spy. It was years ago.