Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP
Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP
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Netflix thriller Extraction star on how guns ‘feel part of me’, blowing Chris Hemsworth’s mind, and her itch to do comedy

  • In Netflix film Extraction, Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani plays an arms dealer who helps Chris Hemsworth’s black ops mercenary rescue a kidnapped child
  • She talks about working with Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio, being forced to flee Iran as a result, and how refreshing it was to work with Netflix

Topic |   Netflix
Helen Barlow
Helen Barlow

Updated: 5:03pm, 22 Apr, 2020

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Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP
Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani arrives for the screening of the film The Dead Don’t Die at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France last year. Photo: AFP
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