Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.

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