Like her character in Seven Days, actress Vishka Asayesh faced tough choices in pursuing her profession
The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Seven Days directly address the repression of a theocratic regime. Both films are showing at the Toronto International Film Festival,Even with her head scarf carefully in place, the popular Iran ian actress Vishka Asayesh would be repeatedly recognized by fans on the streets of Tehran. Visiting the Toronto International Film Festival to launch the new feature, she is bare-headed and anonymous, freed from both the hijab and the recognition.
“I think a lot of women can relate to this character,” Asayesh said. “They don’t need to be in Iran to go through the same problem. Whoever is a fighter, an activist, being a mom, they have the same emotional dilemma.” The Farsi-language film, directed by German-Iranian director Ali Samadi Ahadi, was not made in Iran. Produced in Germany, it was filmed in Georgia, where Tbilisi played Tehran and the mountainous region of Kazbegi stood in for the Iranian-Turkish border. Like“Artists want to say what they have in their hearts. Either they do it and face the consequences. Or they just leave,” Asayesh said.
“That scene gives me goosebumps,” Asayesh said. “When I first read the script, I was like: ‘Come on, come on. What’s wrong with you?’ This is how we are brought up: You have been told you’re a mom, you have to stay with your kids. This is your duty. But if you were a man, nobody would have told you that.”looks at the other camp.
“Iranians are very poetic, masters of the metaphor,” Asayesh said. “When we were at work, we knew we couldn’t say this sentence, so our director or the writer would sit down and come up with another sentence that had the same meaning. We played around and it made everyone more creative to find the way to say what they wanted to say.
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