waiting for kiarostami — Ana Bayat is a multilingual storyteller, dialect coach, voiceover artist and language consultant.

TO SPEAK PERSIAN

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.

Waiting for Kiarostami (2016)

See me in the upcoming feature film Waiting for Kiarostami directed by Hossein Khandan and produced by Randy Williams (Estelle Studios).

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Thoughts on Casting (Waiting for Kiarostami)

At the age of 17, I played the role of a mother to a 9 year old in the big blockbuster “Little Bird of Happiness” (“Parandeye Kuchake Khoshbakhti”) directed by Pouran Derakhshandeh. At the time, I had little emotional resources to relate to the feeling of a mother. I was a teenager with a strong Stanislavsky training under my belt and an immense natural motherly instinct, but none of these got me closer to the truth in those scenarios.

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COACHING GLENN CLOSE

TO SPEAK PERSIAN