The Night Of’s Payman Maadi on Middle Eastern Stereotypes in Hollywood and Getting Past the Censors in Iran

Payman Maadi was writing his own films when renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi threw him a curveball, asking him to act for the first time in one of his movies (2009’s excellent About Elly). But things really changed for the 46-year-old Iranian, now one of the country’s most celebrated actors, when he teamed with Farhadi again two years later as the lead actor in A Separation.

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