Actress Sara Bahrami lets on drug user role

Iranian actress Sara Bahrami has leaked juicy details on her role in Fajr 2018 contender ‘The Woodpecker’ directed by Behrouz Shoeibi.

“I made every attempt to convince Shoeibi that I can play the role. I was one of his main choices and tried to be the one,” Bahrami talk to media about her role as a drug user in the flick.

The actress also talked about the hardships she experienced to feature a credible account of the character, saying that for some eight months she spent with drug users in rehabilitation centers to gain a feeling of how they live.

Bahrami explained about how she lost her temper during the last days of shooting the film and added, “I still have nightmares of those days.”

Born in 1982 in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, Bahrami has studied Theater at university.

She has acted in series such as ‘Euphrates’, ‘Like a Nightmare’, ‘Parvaneh’, and ‘The Recluse’.

Bahrami has also appeared in a number of movies, including ‘Gita’, ‘Teheran’, ‘A Simple Romance’, ‘Italy Italy’, ‘A House on 41st Street’ and ‘I am Diego Maradona’.

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