Apr 15, 2008
Helen Hunt isn’t scared of Salman Rushdie
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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