Photo by: Scott Kowalchyk for the LSSC, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (S7 E127)
I recently had the once-in-a-lifetime gift of coaching my lifelong idol, the incomparable Glenn Close whose career I have avidly followed since the early 80s to speak Persian in Tehran series, season 2, on Apple TV+ (release date: May 6, 2022).
Tune in to start watching and see Glenn speak a language other than English for the first time in her onscreen career!
I could not be more thrilled to have had such a dream fulfilled! Thank you, Paper Entertainment, for finding me and making this creative linguistic collaboration a dream come true.
Here is Glenn speaking about the challenges of learning Persian within a short period of time on ET Online by By Mona Khalifeh: https://tinyurl.com/ycktu3a9
To watch Glenn say to Stephen Colbert “you are very witty” in Persian, click on the image above.
It has been the honor of a lifetime coaching Glenn Close. It would be the first time Glenn Close would act in a language other than English and I was thrilled to be a part of this process, a rare gift I will cherish and celebrate for a long time to come. It was also a dream come true, because Glenn Close has been a poignant part of my personal life’s journey from a teenager in revolutionary Iran to my life as an adult living in California and working in theatre and film.
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