Showing posts with label Haaz Sleiman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haaz Sleiman. Show all posts

Hottie Haaz Sleiman Cut From Nurse Jackie

Bad news, y'all. MadProfessah fave Haaz Sleiman, a.k.a. "the Arab hottie" is no longer going to be appearing in the acclaimed Showtime series Nurse Jackie. You may remember Haaz fro his great turn in last year's big indie film The Visitor (see MadProfessah's review) which was nominated for 2 Oscars last year.

Hat/tip David Dust

Haaz Sleiman Talks About His Gay Muslim Character

Haaz Sleiman, left with Edie Falco on Showtime's Nurse Jackie

MadProfessah fave and overall hottie Haaz Sleiman is appearing in Showtime's new Nurse Jackie series starring multiple-Emmy-winning actress Edie Falco as a gay Muslim male nurse named "Mo-Mo."

Sleiman co-starred in last year's Oscar-nominated The Visitor (one of my favorite movies of 2008) and has also appeared as an "improbably hot Arab terrorist" on Fox's 24 television series.

Below, some video of him talking about his role on Nurse Jackie, which started airing on Showtime this week (Mondays)

Arab Hottie Haaz Sleiman In New Showtime Series

Rod 2.0 scoops MadProfessah on this latest casting news of my favorite Arab hottie: Haaz Sleiman. Apparently, Haaz has been cast in the new Edie Falco comedy Nurse Jackie on Showtime. Haaz will be playing one of the six lead characters on the show, he is playing Maurice, a gay Muslim-American best friend of the lead character, Nurse Jackie. The series will debut on Showtime in early 2009 and its first season will be 12 episodes.

MOVIE REVIEW: The Visitor

Finally got around to seeing The Visitor at the Laemmle Colorado 7 theaters in Pasadena this week.

The Visitor is the second film written and directed by Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent). It stars Richard Jenkins of Six Feet Under fame, Arab hottie Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass and Danai Gurira.

Mad Professah caught the trailer for The Visitor a few months ago and immediately noticed that my favorite Arab actor Haaz Sleiman was in it.

After watching it, I noticed that it has been getting amazing reviews from major newspapers like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and has a 91% rating at rottentomatoes.com.

And I agree (mostly). The performance by Richard Jenkins is Oscar-worthy. There are, however, some issues I take with the script.



The story deals with a lonely Connecticut College economics professor who recently lost his wife. He goes to New York City for a conference and discovers an African-Arab couple (Sleiman and Gurira) living in his long-dormant apartment. It turns out that the couple are both undocumented immigrants and through an unfortunate series of events the vagaries and indignities of the U.S. immigration law and policies come into focus. That's not the part of the script that I have a problem with.


The problematical part of the script is the ending (which is a downer) as well as a slightly odd inclusion of a surprising budding romance between two of the characters. However, the overall impact of the film is quite strong and it is definitely a moving and memorable cinematic experience, mostly due to Jenkins performance and Sleiman's infectious good looks.

GRADE: A-.

New Haaz Sleiman Movie: The Visitor

Mad Professah first noticed actor Haaz Sleiman in Maurice Jamal's The Ski Trip but first blogged about him during his stint as "another improbably handsome muslim terrorist" on 24 last season.


During previews for the movie Persepolis I saw an ad where his dazzling smile is features in the trailer for The Visitor, an independent film starring Richard Jenkins (the father in Six Feet Under) as a college professor who travels to New York City and finds an immigrant couple (played by Haaz Sleiman and Hiam Abbass) living in his apartment. The film was written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (who also wrote and drercted the indie hit The Station Agent), and was presented at this year's Sundance Film festival. Thomas McCarthy plays the ethically challenged reporter Scott Templeton on the current (and final) season of The Wire. Mad Professah applauds MCarthy for casting Sleiman in his second feature film and looks forward to seeing more of this talented (and improbably handsome) actor in the future! (hat/tip IMDb.)