Tag: Youssef
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‘No one knew what to do with me’: Ramy Youssef on privilege, fear and his friend Taylor Swift
The star of his own sitcom, Youssef is now appearing in his first big movie role, in Poor Things. He discusses his Muslim American roots, filming in Palestine and working with Willem DafoeThese are strange times for Ramy Youssef. On the one hand, he is about to appear in his first big movie role, in…
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Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef Went to Mortician School for ‘Poor Things’
Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming Frankenstein-inspired fantasy “Poor Things” felt like a “college campus” for his cast, including Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Ramy Youssef, who were all tasked with learning new skills.Youssef and Dafoe were assigned to mortician school, with classes based on the 19th-century approach to autopsies and embalming. Dafoe portrays the unorthodox…