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.
Not only because he was my father, but because he was a true lover of film and theatre. He didn’t need to be actively acting to be involved. He didn’t watch films, he devoured them and was able to even recognize the actors involved in the shortest of scenes. He loved his chosen craft in the real sense of the word.
Read MoreMy father’s eternal support is undoubtedly always with me. However, as I looked around the room last night, I realized that most of the theatre and film veterans present were from his generation, had met him personally and or remembered him as an actor through and through.
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