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.
We had returned in the midst of the Iran-Iraq war and I was inconsolable, pining for my friends back in Spain. Then acting happened and the effect of theatre and film in my life was more potent than any imaginable potion. It kept me afloat, gave me hope, the motivation to carry on until I’d see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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