The US actress gave everything for a spy series. She even learned a language that was completely foreign to her.
Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”, “A Fateful Affair”, “Dangerous Liaisons”) was nominated for an Oscar eight times. In her long career, the US actress has hardly missed a genre.
At the age of 75, the star is now breaking new ground – for the first time Close plays an agent. She appears in the second season of the Israeli spy series “Tehran,” which launched this Friday on the Apple TV+ streaming service.
Proper emphasis is important
The hardest part for Close was learning a new language. “Learning Farsi and speaking it so well in front of the camera that I could impress native speakers was the biggest challenge,” says Close in an interview with the German Press Agency. For two months she worked intensively with language teachers. “You have to find the right intonation and then speak fast enough so that it sounds fluent,” says the Hollywood star.
Clad in a headscarf, Close plays a British psychotherapist who lives as a Muslim in Tehran and works there for the Israeli secret service Mossad. She stands by the young agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), who is on a secret mission in Tehran.
New adventure
The shooting schedule was quite exhausting, Close admits. She arrived in Athens to film at the end of a severe heat wave. “You shoot at different times of the day, at very different temperatures. You have to be careful not to run out of breath.” But in the project with so many challenges, she immediately agreed, assures Close. “I have to do this, this is a new adventure.” (dpa)