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The Old Man and the New Parwana
How Alia Shawkat brought her character to a place where she’s “standing in her power in the deepest way.”
She becomes a much bigger player in the storytelling, which I think is very on brand for The Old Man,” Shawkat says of Parwana’s two-season arc, which ends with her being more influential than her two American father figures, Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) and Harold Harper (John Lithgow). As an actor, she knows the show’s unique style — all those long action takes and gloriously verbose monologues — requires an exacting level of detail that might drive her and co-stars Jeff Bridges and Amy Brenneman a little batty, but that will deliver the right amount of tension onscreen. As a biracial woman of Iraqi and American descent, she appreciates the inner lives the show created for her character’s biological father, Faraz ( Navid Negahban), and aunt Khadija (Jacqueline Antaramian), Afghan leaders who protect their village’s women and children from the country’s religious extremists.
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