The Iranians want him dead (for writing “The Satanic Verses”), but actress turned director Helen Hunt isn’t scared. She’s casting award-winning author Sir Salman Rushdie as a fertility doctor in her upcomign film “Then She Found Me” after succesfully auditioning for the part.

The film is Hunt’s directorial debut

Hunt said:

‘I saw a number of actors, then Salman asked to audition. He was the best, and I was thrilled to have him…. It was important to me that although the movie is in part about God, that it not simply be a Judeo-Christian god. I thought if the doctor was Indian it might imply different kinds of prayer.”

Rushdie has played himself on screen, most notably in “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”

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