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The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig Podcast Script ALEX IN CAPS MOVIES - Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven, Lawrence After Arabia, Hamburg Cell, The Dangerous Man, Cairo Time, Deep Space Nine, SKYLINES, PEAKY BLINDERS, DA VINCI’S DEMONS, GAME OF THRONES, GOTHAM, THE SPY AND DEEP STATE NOE TAG MOVIE CLIP/S Great scenes from career ALEX INTRO Intro Summary of career with some audio clips ACTING DYNASTIES ARE AS MUCH A PART OF THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL LEXICON AS POLITICAL ONES. IT’S RARE, HOWEVER, THAT A SINGLE PERSON ENCOMPASSES BOTH CAMPS. ACTOR ALEXANDER SIDDIG, BORN OF A SUDANESE FATHER AND BRITISH MOTHER, IS THAT RAREST OF BIRDS, HOWEVER. BORN NOVEMBER 21, 1965 IN OMDURMAN, SUDAN AS SIDDIG EL TAHIR EL FADIL EL SIDDIG ABDURRAHMAN MOHAMMED AHMED ABDEL KARIM EL MAHDI,/ SIDDIG INITIALLY SHORTENED HIS PROFESSIONAL NAME TO SIDDIG EL FADIL, AND THEN TO ALEXANDER SIDDIG, AS A TIP OF THE HAT TO HIS MATERNAL UNCLE, MALCOLM MCDOWELL’S MOST ICONIC ROLE: RUTHLESS TEENAGE GANG LEADER ALEX IN STANLEY KUBRICK’S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. SIDDIG'S PARENTS MET IN THE 1960S WHEN HIS MOTHER TRAVELLED TO SUDAN WITH A FRIEND WHO INTRODUCED HER TO SIDDIG'S FATHER, A MEMBER OF SUDAN'S RULING FAMILY AT THE TIME. SIDDIG'S FATHER WAS A STUDENT AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IN THE 1950S AND WAS PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH. SIDDIG'S UNCLE SADIQ AL-MAHDI WAS PRIME MINISTER OF SUDAN FROM 1966–1967 AND AGAIN FROM 1986–1989. //SIDDIG IS ALSO THE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON OF MUHAMMAD AHMAD, A NUBIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER WHO WAS PROCLAIMED THE MAHDI BY HIS DISCIPLES. SIDDIG MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig1 ​ ​ LONDON AT AGE TWO, WHERE HE SPENT THE REMAINDER OF HIS FORMATIVE YEARS. AFTER PREPARATORY SCHOOL, SIDDIG ATTENDED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON FOR A YEAR, THEN ENROLLED AT THE VENERABLE LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART, AKA, LAMDA, FOCUSING ON ACTING AND DIRECTING FOR THE STAGE. HIS FIRST BREAK CAME PORTRAYING PRINCE FEISAL IN A DANGEROUS MAN: LAWRENCE AFTER ARABIA, OPPOSITE RALPH FIENNES, WHO ALSO MADE HIS DEBUT IN THE TITULAR ROLE. /SIDDIG HASN’T STOPPED WORKING SINCE, FINDING MOST OF HIS SUCCESS ON TELEVISION, PARTICULARLY IN THE ROLE OF DOCTOR BASHIR IN STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, FOREVER CEMENTING THE YOUNG ACTOR IN THE SORT OF ICONIC STATUS RESERVED ONLY FOR THOSE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BECOME PART OF POP CULTURE HISTORY. /SIDDIG HAS OTHER NOTABLE APPEARANCES IN FEATURE FILMS SUCH AS SYRIANA, OPPOSITE GEORGE CLOONEY AND MATT DAMON, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT, RUBA NADDA’S CAIRO TIME, OPPOSITE PATRICIA CLARKSON AND JULIAN SCHNABEL’S MIRAL. SOME OF THE HIGH-PROFILE TELEVISION THAT HAVE FEATURED HIS TALENTS INCLUDE PEAKY BLINDERS, DA VINCI’S DEMONS, GAME OF THRONES, GOTHAM, THE SPY AND DEEP STATE. ALEXANDER SIDDIG’S LATEST EFFORT IS A FUN, CAMPY SCIENCE FICTION FLICK ENTITLED SKYLINES, ABOUT A VIRUS THREATENING TO TURN EARTH-DWELLING FRIENDLY ALIEN HYBRIDS AGAINST HUMANS. CAPTAIN ROSE CORLEY, PLAYED BY LINDSEY MORGAN, MUST LEAD A TEAM OF ELITE MERCENARIES ON A MISSION TO THE ALIEN WORLD IN ORDER TO SAVE WHAT'S LEFT OF HUMANITY. SIDDIG PORTRAYS HER COMMANDING OFFICER, GENERAL RADFORD, AND SEEMS TO BE HAVING A BALL IN THIS ROGER CORMAN-INSPIRED ROMP. /DISTRIBUTED BY VERTICAL ENTERTAINMENT, SKYLINES IS AVAILABLE IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL DECEMBER 18TH. The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig2 ​ ​ /ALEXANDER SIDDIG JOINED US remotely FROM HIS HOME ON THE EAST COAST TO DISCUSS HIS REMARKABLE LIFE AND CAREER. HERE’S WHAT TRANSPIRED: INTERVIEW ALEX 0:40 SO LET'S START WITH WITH SKYLINES SKYLINES REMINDED ME OF THE BEST KIND OF ROGER CORMAN MOVIE. SO MUCH FUN. Siddig 1:09 So really glad you got that. It's it's one of those things that I think because it hasn't been done for such a long time. People aren't making these kind of movies. I mean, not since Yeah. You know, Roger Corman? I mean, Neil Marshall has a go with these kind of ideas. Sometimes. And then there was john waters. I mean, there's a whole bunch of people who make what are called movies before they've even started. And it obviously is going to have some things about it that people are going to be like, well, it's not that I don't have I'm not geared up to know this kind of film. I don't know, I can't invest three quarters of an hour in the build up. And but my God, when you push that button, and that movie kind of explodes. It does it so well. So tongue in cheek, and there's such a great sense of humor about it. And I wasn't just wasn't sure when I first started it. And when I read it, whether the director and I would be on the same page. And that was just such a blessing when he said, You know what, you're right. This is one of those movies. And we're gonna have fun here. ALEX AND WHAT MADE IT WORK FOR ME IS THAT THE WHOLE CAST WERE IN ON THE JOKE, AND THE WAY IT WAS PLAYED, IT WAS REALLY PITCH PERFECT. DURING THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES, I WAS LIKE, OH, BOY, WHAT AM UP FOR HERE? AND THEN I GOT INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT, AND I REALIZE WHAT YOU GUYS WERE DOING. IT WAS REALLY A LOT OF FUN. Siddig 2.40 For that, for that reason Putney to reintroduce people to this sort of thing. I mean, again, you mentioned Malcolm, my uncle is his, his muse is directing Muse was a guy called Lindsay Anderson. Oh, he made some phenomenal films with him. Absolutely. And and Lindsey Spitz specialized in this in this sort of this sort of satire, this kind of movie. I didn't do sci fi while he did a kind of sci fi would pretend The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig3 ​ ​ 3.09 It's a genre mashup. And then you've got that, you know, thrumming thrash metal coming in the soundtrack every now and then, which is very Neil Marshall. And it just, I'm really happy. You're the first person who's just got it without me having to say to you, so ALEX 3.28 LOOKING AT YOUR FILMOGRAPHY, ONE IS STRUCK BY SUCH A PREPONDERANCE OF SCI FI AND FANTASY. SO THE OBVIOUS QUESTION IS, WERE YOU ALWAYS A SCI FI AND FANTASY FAN, EVEN AS A KID? Siddig 3.49 Yeah, yeah, I was. I was reading HTML. In my bedroom, my stepfather's as a as I was kind of, we're learning to get to know each other would read to me at night as I fell asleep. And he would read HG Wells. And he read it. He had the whole complete set, and he'd read it from the beginning. And he would with his mellifluous voice, and I would then he had asked him off in the bookshelves, you know, he had saw, I want to say Sargon. But that, you know, I mean, Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan in the Bookshare. And we it, but it was it was all heavy, you know, hardcore sci fi was none of this was I mean, he was possibly more populist, but the other stuff asked him off, boy. It's tough, tough stuff. So yeah, I think I did, although I didn't really know it. I didn't, I wouldn't have said I was a sci fi geek. I didn't go out of my way. I loved fantasy books. I read those two. But that was much when I was much older in my late teens. And then, you know, Star Trek came along. 5.12 And Star Wars blew my socks off when I saw that in the movies. And I just loved it. And I yeah, I would never have plus myself as a sci fi fantasy kind of person. But actually, I think I am now you mentioned ALEX YOUR BACKGROUND IS FASCINATING. YOUR MOTHER WAS ENGLISH, THE SISTER OF MALCOLM MCDOWELL, YOUR FATHER WAS SUDANESE, WHICH IS A COMBINATION YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT VERY OFTEN. HOW DID THEY MEET? 5.44 An archaeologist called Robert askin took my mom to the Sudan, to show her the ruins in Libya, the very north of Sudan. And they came back down on the Nile. And I think he was sort of trying to show off to her and he said, Well, listen, I'll introduce you to the, the kind of ruling family here. And so she said, Sure. And she got off the boat in Khartoum, the capital there. And this man in flowing white robes came walking down the jetty to meet The Hollywood Interview - Alexander Siddig4 ​ ​ her, and that was going to be my father. Wow. And that was a she was an extremely glamorous lady. My mom, she was a model and she was a PR public relations person for theater. She, you know, did the first pub, she was the PR person for the Rocky Horror Show and bunch of different things. But the royal court primarily Theatre in London. So she knew a lot of fascinating people. And I got to know them as I was growing up and what an interesting mixed up bunch. They were a lot of them and it closet, queers as they were called back then. Now thankfully, they just queer. Great. And so I had a whole bunch of fascinating kind of people around me in my life as a young up beyond boy.
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