Iranian actor joins Kirsten Stewart in Camp X-Ray
According to The Wrap, Peyman Moaadi, who starred in the Oscar-winning Iranian film A Separation, stars opposite Kristen Stewart in writer-director Peter Sattler's politically-charged indie drama "Camp X-Ray," TheWrap has learned.
Stewart stars as Cole, a young soldier who escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she's been stationed at Guantanamo rather than Iraq, as she had hoped. Met with hatred and abuse from the Muslim men in charge, she forges an odd friendship with Ali (Moaadi), who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
Stewart, who broke up last year with boyfriend and Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, seems cozy and friendly with the Iranian actor on and off-stage.
Moaadi can be seen alongside Morgan Freeman coming up in Kazuaki Kiriya's action adventure The Last Knights.
Recently, Iran's ultra-religious groups and media rebuked Leila Hatami, Moaadi's female co-star in A Separation, for a hand-shake and a kiss-on-the-cheek during Cannes film festival (link). It is unlikely that Moaadi's cozy pictures with Stewart will cause him similar troubles because Iran's religious patriarchal groups are often more sensitive about women's modest outfit and behavior than men's.
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