This Palestinian Actor Can’t Attend The Oscars Because Of A Trump Admin Ban. He Hopes His Film Will Speak For Him.
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“I’m banned as the physical me but my art is there,” Motaz Malhees said of "The Voice of Hind Rajab," a docudrama about a 5-year-old girl's final moments before Israeli forces killed her in Gaza.
Palestinian actor Motaz Malhees gets emotional just thinking about two lines from his film “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” the Oscar-nominated docudrama on 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab’s desperate plea to humanitarian workers in Gaza before she was killed by Israeli forces.
Malhees, who listened to actual recordings of Rajab’s call while she was trapped inside a car that was reportedly attacked by an Israeli military tank, said he experienced a panic attack hearing Rajab say she was in “the butterfly class” in preschool.
“That hit me deep in my heart,” said Malhees in an interview with HuffPost.
Another line struck him: Rajab saying her loved ones in the car, likely dead while covered in blood, were “sleeping.”
The actor said the two moments “destroyed” him as he listened to Rajab’s call through an earpiece on set. It provided further fuel for him to help share the 5-year-old’s story with “every cell” in his body.
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