Posted on 08/29/2004 4:50:34 PM PDT by CaptainK
Your new film, ''Vanity Fair,'' is based not on the magazine but on the great English novel. Reese Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, one of the most conniving heroines in literature. As someone once said of Becky, she is not just a social climber; she's a mountaineer.
Are you personally beset by a sense of ''Vanity Fair''-style striving?
No. I only do what I want to do.
But you pay taxes.
I pay taxes. It offends me to pay taxes to support a war.
As an Indian citizen living in New York, do you see the U.S. as a force for good?
No. Islamophobia has completely raged in the Western world since 9/11. Americans are only given one very biased point of view about the Islamic faith.
You seem to be suggesting that Americans view all Muslims as terrorists.
Living in New York, we never felt foreign. After 9/11, we felt foreign.
Have you been mistaken for a Muslim on the streets?
Last time I checked, Muslims looked like every other human being. My parents are Hindu, and I married into a Muslim family. I would be happy to be mistaken for a Muslim.
You live part of the year in Uganda.
Yes, with my husband, Mahmood Mamdani, a political scientist who teaches at Columbia University, and my son, Zohran. I'm setting up a film lab based on the model of Sundance to teach screenwriting and directing to young people in East Africa.
Do you find Americans to be well informed about events in Africa?
Once when I was working in Hollywood and making a big movie, every time I said I was living in Uganda, they would look at me and say, ''Is that upstate?''
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"I would be happy to be mistaken for a Muslim"
She might very well be a muslim, I don't think they're supposed to marry infidels. Wonder what her islamic name would be?;)
"I would be happy to be mistaken for a Muslim"
She might very well be a muslim, I don't think they're supposed to marry infidels. Wonder what her islamic name would be?;)
I always see her movies too.
You are foreign, you dumb bitch, and if you don't like it, you can stay out. Your presence makes me feel foreign in my own homeland.
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