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Alexander Siddig Answers Every Question We Have About Kingdom of Heaven
“It was really important to me that this character was the window into the soul of the Arab world.”
In Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom’s Balian, a blacksmith-turned-Crusader-turned-baron, undergoes his “Are we the baddies?” realization almost immediately after meeting the first of the Muslims he’s meant to kill in this religious war. The Sudanese and English actor spent seven seasons on the cult favorite series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine playing Chief Medical Officer Julian Bashir. He had a lot of work to do, and he was constantly with his trainer doing all sorts of annoying things which I would have hated — tons of bottles of whatever the hell weight lifters drink, chicken and rice, getting up at 4 a.m. to do his workouts before going to the movie at 6.
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