'The Kingdom" Ashraf Barhoum Interview

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Brooke Christopher sits down with Ashraf Barhom to talk about his first American picture, and his audition.

THE KINGDOM September 28, 2007

Genre: Thriller
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Piven, Jason Bateman, Ali Suliman, Ashraf Barhoum
Directed by: Peter Berg
Screenplay by: Matthew Michael Carnahan
Based on a Story by: Peter Berg & Matthew Michael Carnahan
Produced by: Michael Mann, Scott Stuber
Executive
Producers: Mary Parent, John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey, Steve Saeta




Director Peter Berg, who blisteringly reinterpreted the high-school sports drama with the celebrated Friday Night Lights, producer Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, The Aviator, Miami Vice), and producer Scott Stuber (You, Me and Dupree, The Break-Up) join Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx in a timely thriller about the explosive clash that happens when Middle East meets West: The Kingdom.

Foxx stars as whip-smart FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who has just received the assignment of his career: assemble an elite team (played by Jennifer Garner, Oscar® winner Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) and go to Riyadh to hunt down and capture the terrorist mastermind behind a deadly attack on Americans working in Saudi Arabia. The feds have only one week to infiltrate and cripple a cell bent on jihad to western society.

No training could prepare Fleury and his team for the disorienting culture shock they face once inside this scorching foreign land—a byzantine maze of profiteering politicians and storefront terrorists. Bound by handlers who refuse to play ball with the U.S., the agents quickly find the local law enforcement more hindrance than help and soon grow uncertain of anybody's allegiance.

But when a sympathetic Saudi police captain helps them navigate Riyadh politics and investigate the true cause of the attack, Fleury finds an unexpected comrade-in-arms. In their lightning fast attempt to crack the case, the partners' search leads them straight to the killers' front door. Now in a fight for their own lives, two teams on opposite sides of the war on terror won't stop until vengeance is found in The Kingdom.


Actor: 1. The Kingdom (2007) .... Col. Al-Ghazi
2. Paradise Now (2005) (as Ashraf Barhoum) .... Abu-Karem
3. The Syrian Bride (2004) (as Ashraf Barhoum) .... Marwan ... aka Fiancée syrienne, La (France) ... aka Kala Ha-Surit, Ha- (Israel: Hebrew title) ... aka Syrische Braut, Die (Germany)
4. Ahava Columbianit (2004) .... Samir ... aka Columbian Love (International: English title: literal title)

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  Film & Animation

[Makiko Felice]

Seriously, he was awesome in The Kingdom. He made the movie worth seeing til the end and he out-acted everyone. His acting made me cry, too... Great actor!!!

[mickyg83]

by far this guy was the best actor in the movie

[AtheistArab1]

traitor

[narsk8er]

"Hows your ear? Its Good? Is it the right one or the left?" Best Al-Ghazi line in The Kingdom.

[Infidel4LifeAdmin]

Maybe if you would read my actual comment, I said CHARACTER.

I'm only disappointed in those that seem to want to correct me but are not even reading my comment right.

[Ramij999]

lol he's a christian , sorry to disappoint you. but yea he's an arab.

maybe next time you be proud of him because he's an arab !! not because of religion. don't make it about religion when it's not !!

[prettypaw08]

Amazing actor!!! Love him!!!

Please check him out in the Israeli move 'Lebanon'

Such passion

[Jared Jon Scully]

Love him he was perfect in The Kingdom awesome job well done.

[Sumumabitch78]

"Listen,mr eeh...specialagent Fleury. 47 of my men were blown to hundreds of pieces that will take months to collect them. 80 000 officers across the country.Thousands of people that can forge identity. I´m very sorry,I apoligize I dont have definitive answer!"

Or the very funny cause Bateman isnt funny in this one...-"By the way,I...dont like your jokes." Not only was him name clusterfucked along with Suleyman...THEY GOT HIS NAME WRONG. Bahroum? If his name was on the poster,he´d be a star...

[Shahzadkargil]

its not about Ashraf Barhom, its about Colonel Faris. we liked him for his character and his acting. he is such a talented actor. it dsn't matter whether he's a Muslim or a Christian