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Breaking Baz: Hot Sundance Movie ‘Brides’ Is About Schoolgirl Friendship, Not Terrorism, Says Director Nadia Fall
Nadia Fall Film ‘Brides’ Is About Schoolgirls From Friendship, Not Terrorism
It’s easy, and lazy, to jump to conclusions that the two girls — Muna and Doe, played extraordinarily well by Safiyya Ingar and Ebada Hassan, respectively — just kids really, are radicalized foot soldiers readying themselves to become terrorists, a bit like the real-life story of Shamima Begum, who left Britain in 2015, made her way to Syria and within two weeks was wed to a man who was later convicted of terrorism offenses. The brilliant casting director Shaheen Baig persuaded the likes of Arthur Darville, Sinead Matthews, Amanda Lawrence, Leo Bill and Yuspa Warsama to take on small roles, but they bring such a depth of experience to their performances that the tiniest of gestures can convey a world of intent. “As much as I was auditioning them, we left proper time in all of those workshops to talk about the content of the script and how they felt about it as young, Black and Asian women, majority of whom were Muslim heritage, not exclusively, but we really keen to try, if we could be specific.
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