Showing admirable dedication to his craft, Mr Sekhon, who has a drama degree from Royal Holloway, University of London, trained by running up hills and dieting to reduce his 200lb frame to “bin Laden skinny.” I have brown skin and a prominent nose, but it’s not as though anyone has ever stopped me in the street and shouted ‘Hey, aren’t you bin Laden?’ And I think I have a better smile, not as creepy.” “I guess I do look a bit like Bin Laden – I am 6 feet 4 inches tall, about what he was. My first reaction was an expletive that cannot be printed here. ![]() Writing in the New York Times, he said: “The next week, I was offered the part of the world’s most notorious terrorist. The British Actor Who Played bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty Mr Sekhon, a Sikh former member of the National Youth Theatre, said he secured the role of the “global face of evil” after a mysterious call from a casting director, who asked to see him but would not tell him what it was about. Ricky Sekhon, 29, described how much of his portrayal of the al-Qaeda leader involved being carried around in a bag by actors pretending to be US Navy Seals, saying that it was much like being in a hammock. ![]() Want to know what it takes to play a dead man in a movie?
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