{"id":11298,"date":"2011-02-04T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2011-02-04T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:01:35","slug":"siddig-facing-his-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/02\/siddig-facing-his-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddig: Facing His Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 9-11, <strong>Alexander Siddig<\/strong> faced his Arab heritage and learned how to relax.<\/p>\n<p>Half-English and half-Sudanese, Siddig is not sure which side predominates. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s an English engine in an Arab body or an Arab engine in an English body,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not quite sure which way around it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Siddig040710.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11300\" title=\"Siddig040710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Siddig040710.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>After 9-11, &#8220;being Arab became a front and center part of my personality, in a way that it had never been,&#8221; said Siddig. &#8220;Now suddenly I had to face up to this new music and I excised the anger and defensiveness over a series of movies. In front of people, which is an interesting way of living I suppose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But an appearance in a movie began to set Siddig at ease with his heritage. &#8220;<strong>Ridley Scott<\/strong>, one of the most unlikely political bridge-builder, wrote this amazing part for an amazing actor called <strong>Ghassan Massoud<\/strong>, the Syrian actor who plays Saladin in the <em>Kingdom of Heaven<\/em> and I play his sidekick,&#8221; said Siddig. Roles in other movies such as<em> Cairo Time<\/em> enabled him to &#8220;[like] to be able to introduce people to Arab men, my Arab man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Siddig&#8217;s latest film, <em>Miral<\/em>, will debut next month. In <em>Miral<\/em>, Siddig plays the father of a Palestinian woman raised at the Dar Al-Tifel Institute after the death of her mother. Siddig was attracted to the film by its director, <strong>Julian Schnabel<\/strong>, but doing something he hadn&#8217;t done before didn&#8217;t hurt either. &#8220;I really loved the fact that it was a film about something that I hadn&#8217;t done a film about,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I was kind of amazed that I hadn&#8217;t done a film about Palestine and that particular issue which started in 1948!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 9-11, Alexander Siddig faced his Arab heritage and learned how to relax. Half-English and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663],"tags":[3526,3144],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","tag-miral","tag-siddig"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-ds9\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11301,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions\/11301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}