{"id":3680,"date":"2007-10-05T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/05\/playing-terrorist-the-arab-actors-ghetto\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T17:51:16","slug":"playing-terrorist-the-arab-actors-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"Playing terrorist: The Arab Actor&#039;s Ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/playing-terrori.html\">Ezra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The undisputed champion of the Arab terrorist role is Sayed Badreya. The burly, bearded Egyptian-born actor has played an array of menacing characters in a 20-year Hollywood career. He&#8217;ll appear with Robert Downey Jr. in next year&#8217;s &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; as an Arab arms dealer who kidnaps the hero. In 2003, he and Issawi made a short film called &#8220;T for Terrorist&#8221; in which an Arab actor, frustrated with endless terrorist roles, takes over a movie set at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Badreya recalls when he first arrived in Hollywood in 1986. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t work. I was too handsome,&#8221; he laughs. &#8220;So I put on some weight and grew a beard, and suddenly I was working every day and playing the angry Arab.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ezra: The undisputed champion of the Arab terrorist role is Sayed Badreya. The burly, bearded Egyptian-born actor has played an array of menacing characters in a 20-year Hollywood career. He&#8217;ll appear with Robert Downey Jr. in next year&#8217;s &#8220;Iron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-criticism","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}