ifilm poll choice in spotlight

ifilm asks and our dear viewers choose in polls regularly published on our homepage. Here is part 1-c, on Kambiz Dirbaz, your picked actor in ‘A Mother’s Sacrifice’.

In a recent poll, we asked our audience who their choice actor appearing in ifilm series ‘A Mother's Sacrifices’ was. The results were as follows:

Kambiz Dirbaz: 37.1%

Behnaz Jafari: 25.7%

Parivash Nazariyeh: 20%

Mehdi Soltani-Sarvestani: 17.1%

Get to know Kambiz Dirbaz, the most popular actor in this series, based on excerpts from interviews he has had with journalists, both on ‘A Mother’s Sacrifice’ and other productions he has appeared in.

Asked about his age, he once told reporters that being 40 puts you on the verge of something sensitive, and at the same time it is the time to enjoy your life.

"When I was 29, going on 30, I didn’t feel good, and kept telling myself you’ll have to say I’m thirty something, rather than twenty something, starting tomorrow. Although the change would happen overnight, and it was only the length of a night’s time, but the turn of the second to the third decade of my life, made me feel so. As that night was such a special one, I kept looking forward to the turn of 30 to 40, over the last 3-4 years preceding the date," Kambiz goes on.

"What made me feel even better was that turning 40 was when I became a father, and that makes you wiser and brings about more quiet and induces the feeling that you’re more experienced. Now, all that is streaming in the river of my life."

"Over the last two series I faced two prominent challenges. One was playing the role of a single 35-year-old man and the other was being a man of 50 who has a son aged 20. In response to your question regarding how much effort I put into making both roles look believable and realistic, I can say they had to be different. Some differences are conspicuous on the paper when you’re reading the screenplay or novel and you would unconsciously take snapshots of them. Ghias and Khalil, in the two series, were different on the sheet, and so had to be depicted in performance. It wasn’t even just the difference, but that I had to make Khalil believable, so that I would believe the final outcome myself, too."

"I was a man of 40 who had to play the role of a 50-year-old. If I want to play the role of a 30, while I’m myself 40, it will be a piece of cake. I know what things I’ve done when I was 30 and what I haven’t. But I’ve got no image of what I’ll be like in 10 years and will have to draw all the details in my mind, and who could be a better role model than my own dad. The way Khalil walks is a perfect mimic of my dad’s."

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