Translated Interview with Khaled El Nabawy - ADFF 2012
Ibrahim is an
Arab citizen,, he won the
Green Card Lottery, This allows him to go to
America to prove himself there, When he works for five years, he can get citizenship,,Ibrahim arrived in America before
September 11th and you can imagine what would happen to him,,, In the film
Kingdom of Heaven people can see my role periodically a violent character but he only wants to regain his land.
When he found
Salahuddin hesitate in the decision of war, he said to him, "you promised to return
Jerusalem .. do not forget"
the sentence "
DON'T FORGET" i added it ,, I asked the director
Ridley Scott to add this sentence ,, From the context of the whole scene and dialogue the meaning of this sentence is : can not be forgotten.. I accepted this film for this sentence
When you play a character in a movie like "
The Dealer" you play an evil character, but when you play a role in the
West against what
I believe in
You can't bring me a role in the scenario against the
Arab world, and I accept it,,,
impossible
I am an actor and you should bring me the role that I love, this is my job that I love ,, take a behind these things as a public figure, etc,, i take the role because I want to do it because I love
Abu Dhabi participate in producing the movie "
Fair Game" and I participated in with great actors in the world such as
Sean Penn,
Naomi Watts, and
Doug Liman to reveal the lies of America in the
Iraq war ,, and that is the greatest thing