Film Challenges Hollywood Hero Stereotypes Through Comedy

Mashable 2015-08-03

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Maz Jobrani, an actor of Iranian descent, is making an American film starring him as the lead hero. he goal is to use comedy as a means of fighting middle eastern stereotypes within Hollywood and beyond.
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