You may not recognize the name but I bet you recognize the voice. Ever since I saw Shohreh Aghdashloo on 24, she has been on my radar. It’s great to see her on The Expanse. She does justice to her character on the show.
As I was passing through the vendors’ room, her table was
empty so I wandered off to see who else on my long list I could get. Then I saw
her walking toward me. No one recognized her. I nodded and she smiled. I swung around
to follow her to her table. There were a
few people camping out waiting for her to arrive. I was probably 5 people back.
She greeted people as her handler set up the table. She has a presence of sophistication as she
walked and sat and turned to talk to people. As someone got a selfie with her,
she told them to remove the mask. She explained that they didn’t really want a
photo with a mask on. So the fan unlooped
it from one ear and let it dangle from the other. She saw that and said they should take it all
the way off for the photo. I thought
that was very sweet because everyone was nervous about being ‘mask off’.
While there was a nice selection of photos on the table, I liked
mine better. The handler found a good color
sharpie to use. Shohreh commented on the photo. She like the lighting…and then
as she signed, she commented on the color of the pen. It went well with the
jacket. Not a perfect match but doesn’t
clash too much.
At her panel, she talked
about her education, her career, and the Expanse. She also talked about the fall
of Iran. How one day it was some protests that were mostly peaceful and then the
next the protesters were killing people. As she was walking near a protest,
someone hit her in the head with a brick. She knew that her Iran would never be the
same and it was no longer safe to be a woman there. Shortly after that she drove
from Iran to Germany by herself and started her life and career over.
You can see some of that strength in the roles she has taken over the years.
AH
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