They called him the French Al Pacino, but the award-winning star of A Prophet is not to be typecast. Here Rahim talks about his latest role – in the tight emotional drama The Past – and there's a Christmas comedy in the pipeline
Back in 2005, studying in Montpellier, in south-eastern France, Tahar Rahim found himself the subject of a documentary named Tahar the Student. In one scene, we see him in his bedroom, with a poster on the wall for Al Pacino in Scarface; four years on, the young French actor would be widely compared to Pacino in that very film.
Rahim had only appeared in one feature, a bit part in a horror movie, before his explosive breakthrough in Jacques Audiard's 2009 thriller A Prophet. He played Malik, a gauche young petty criminal who rises through the ranks of prison society to become a ruthless gangster, and the performance – quiet but assured,...
Back in 2005, studying in Montpellier, in south-eastern France, Tahar Rahim found himself the subject of a documentary named Tahar the Student. In one scene, we see him in his bedroom, with a poster on the wall for Al Pacino in Scarface; four years on, the young French actor would be widely compared to Pacino in that very film.
Rahim had only appeared in one feature, a bit part in a horror movie, before his explosive breakthrough in Jacques Audiard's 2009 thriller A Prophet. He played Malik, a gauche young petty criminal who rises through the ranks of prison society to become a ruthless gangster, and the performance – quiet but assured,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
He may be just a boy from the French countryside, but an award-studded future is all mapped out
In the finest of showbiz traditions, Tahar Rahim went to Cannes a nobody and came back a star. His knockout performance in director Jacques Audiard's stunning prison film A Prophet has been the talk of world cinema ever since, earning prizes and nominations at a startling rate. So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered. "It's like I went up the red steps at Cannes and never came down," he says.
Having won Best Actor at the European Film Awards in December, Rahim last week found himself among the nominees for Bafta's Orange Rising Star Award (for which the Observer is a media partner), alongside British talents Nicholas Hoult and Carey Mulligan and the Hollywood actors Jesse Eisenberg and Twilight's Kristen Stewart. Tonight he's...
In the finest of showbiz traditions, Tahar Rahim went to Cannes a nobody and came back a star. His knockout performance in director Jacques Audiard's stunning prison film A Prophet has been the talk of world cinema ever since, earning prizes and nominations at a startling rate. So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered. "It's like I went up the red steps at Cannes and never came down," he says.
Having won Best Actor at the European Film Awards in December, Rahim last week found himself among the nominees for Bafta's Orange Rising Star Award (for which the Observer is a media partner), alongside British talents Nicholas Hoult and Carey Mulligan and the Hollywood actors Jesse Eisenberg and Twilight's Kristen Stewart. Tonight he's...
- 1/17/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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