[Lead-in] 1. Well, from South American drug barons to Italian mafiosis, Hollywood films have featured a host of stereotypical villains through the years. They have, but one Arab American actor says it's Arabs who have now become the film industry's villain of choice. Sabila Barges has more.
[Report] 2. Sayed Badreya loves his adopted country (America, I love America), his children (I'm lucky, very lucky), and the duke (I watched John Wayne when I grew up). The Egyptian born actor is a big fan of the USA. But on screen, he couldn't be more anti-American. Because of his Arabic looks, Hollywood most often casts him in the role of a terrorist. That's him in the "Insider" and "True Lies." He's a Muslim hijacker in "Executive Decision."
3. He's played terrorists so often it made an impression on his young daughter.
[Sayed Badreya / Actor] "The teacher ask my daughter what your father do for living? And you know, he ask all the kids and some one said my father is a doc, my father is an engineer. And he came to Jolly, and she said my father hijack aeroplane, because all the movie I'm in, I'm having a gun and I'm hijacking an aeroplane."
4. During the cold war, Hollywood cast Russians as villains as in Rocky IV. It was Nazis during world war II. Think of Casablanca. With terrorism constantly on the news, Hollywood villains of the moment are Arabs.
5. But well before terrorism became a national concern, Hollywood depicted Arabs negatively. Consider "Raiders of the Lost Ark," or "The Sheik" from the silent era.
[Jack Shaheen / Author, "Reel Bad Arabs"] "The Arab Muslim stereotype is as solid as a prehistoric rock. It has not bent, it has been there decades before 9.11, and it persists today."
6. Badreya prepares for his latest audition. The role? An Arab who plots to kill the president.
"And here again, you're playing a terrorist." "My conscious saying hey, big guy, you know, you're doing the wrong thing."
Badreya says he doesn't mind playing terrorists. But he'd like to improve the image of Arabs by playing some good guys, too.
7. He's developing a feature film called American East which he says will offer a more balanced view of Arab Americans. It will star Badreya's friend Tony Shaloub who is of Lebanese descent.
[Tony Shalhoub / Actor] "All of this constant, negative, you know, images, negative portrayals are not helping. You know, we are trying to offset them."
Shalhoub and Badreya have started a program to fund movies by Arab American film makers.
8. Badreya recently starred in a student film by an Iraqi American director playing the kind of three dimensional Arab character rarely seen in Hollywood films.
"So here, I don't have to say I'll kill you from the name of God. I got the, you know, real emotion, I cry, a big Arabic man, you know. This is good."
9. He worked on that film for free. But to feed his family and to bankroll movies that would improve the image of Arab Americans, Badreya needs a paying job. That may mean playing another Arab terrorist in a Hollywood movie, something he knows would harm the image of people like him.
"Do you ever feel like guilty or sort of , you know, selling your soul to the devil?" "All the time, all the time. But you know something? To make my movie, I can deal with the problem. To tell my story, I can deal with the problem. I can lie and many believes the problem as here does it to me. It's a life, it's America." Sabila Barges, CNN, Los Angeles. |
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