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It’s no wonder The Persian Version won the Audience Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. It’s the best kind of crowd pleaser, one with a big heart that’s loaded with good vibes and energy, but also one with a distinct storytelling style that brings the Iranian-American immigration experience to screen like never before.
I was born in New York, but I liked to smuggle tapes into Iran. I used to go to Iran a lot and I was a smuggler of music into Iran — Michael Jackson, Prince, Cyndi Lauper. Because back then, after the revolution, Western music became forbidden, and my cousins were dying for music so I used to stick it in my underwear and just bring it across the border, and I would emerge and the dancing would begin.
MOHAMMADI: Definitely that it was okay to be tougher. Her relationship with Tom's character, who plays Hedwig, she didn't want this. It wasn't planned. So I think it was really important in the beginning, she was telling me it happened on accident. She had just gotten out of a relationship. She went to this party. She wore this incredible Burkini Halloween costume, which was phenomenal and …MOHAMMADI: Exactly! Something happens, and it changed her life forever.
NIOUSHA NOOR: There's so many complexities and layers to her, and I think for me, really studying that and the psychology of what she actually went through, the traumas and almost when she moved here, some sort of disassociating from what she went through, wanting to start new. And she's so driven. And she's driven by this inner strength that pushed her to rise from being a housewife to a business mogul.
MOHAMMADI: The amount of empathy. When it wasn't even my coverage, I was crying during some of [Niousha’s] takes. She's so open and honest and wears her heart on her sleeve and taught me so much. This was my first film so I went in nervous and she was just a guiding light, her and Maryam, and everybody to be honest. Every single person in this cast put so much into their characters. There wasn't one person who didn't respect someone's process.
KESHAVARZ: And also the dynamic. They're sparring amidst a huge family of men, and it’s all the men also navigating their thorny relationships and how the brothers react. The setting and the tapestry of where they're having their scenes and all the men in the background is so important to feel like they're trying to — it's a chess game.
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