to Report Trust cinema Parviz Noori wrote in Etamad newspaper: About eight years have passed since the death of Daoud Rashidi, he was born on July 25, 1312, and he passed away on September 5, 1395. I have been a friend and supporter of him for more than 40 years, he was a person with the utmost courtesy and respect with the temperament of a human being in every sense. ; Understanding, dignified and kind. Not only in the art of theater, he was a master, but his plays are still remembered. (like Waiting for Godot, Richard III, Victory in Chicago, etc.) but also showed in the cinema, he can be present in the theater with the same power and strength. Daoud Rashidi was and is a popular figure among the public, and there are few people who do not know the characteristics of Nakoish.
**There has been a lot of talk about your theater activity and a book has been published in this field, here I want to talk about Daoud Rashidi in the cinema. Can you tell me how you came to the cinema? And how did you get selected for the film Escape from the Trap?
You know that cinema is a tool that everyone likes to have a hand in, it is a medium that can communicate with people better and more than theater or even television, but cinema has more impact, the audience can sit on a bigger screen in silence and see and listen. Teaching is much more effective. I remember Jalal Moghadam, may God have mercy on him, he called and said he wanted to come to our house, I opened the door and he came in tall and rashid. We were friends and he was a very happy and funny creature.
He said, I came to invite you to act in a movie, I had not acted in a movie until then, after all, for any actor, acting in a movie and coming to the cinema is somehow tempting and enjoyable. I said let me see the scenario, he said accept it, I said don’t bother him, he said are you playing or not, I said I need to know, what is it? He said that Behrooz and Thaoghi also played, Behrooz was the first star of the films at that time and was famous and popular, naturally it seemed that my role was the second role and at the disposal of Behrooz with these words, I thought it was a very tempting offer and to refuse Cinema then I said, will you give the scenario now or not? He said you accept first, I said if the role is good why not accept. He sent the scenario and it had a good theme and my role was also good, but at the same time, some people told me to be careful with Behrooz, he always makes everything work out in his favor, they said that he would completely return the role to himself. It makes… (pauses)
**That your role will fade, right?
By the way, it was just the opposite, Behrouz was not only a good colleague and helped me a lot, he was the one who introduced me to cinema. I really owe him. We used to talk a lot about the difference between cinema and theater. He said that unlike theater, in cinema you can repeat a shot (or scene) five or six times. I learned a lot from him.
** How was working with Jalal Moghadam? They say that the director was stubborn and strict, is that true?
No, I was told something about him before, but I knew him as a friend before that and we were in contact, he was a very good-natured, humorous and intelligent man, and one enjoyed being with him. He knew his work well, of course, he was also strict and he meditated and thought a lot on each scene, he knew how to behave with his actors.
**After escaping from the trap, you acted in various movies, but your choices were not as calculated as choosing plays, why?
You know, the theater did not bring any income and it was hard work, especially the heavy plays, but the cinema was a hundred times more financially, the salaries were much higher. It was also tempting, at that time our financial situation was not good, at that time the very high salary could have provided us with three or four months of life, I know I was not very careful in choosing.
**But one of your roles that will always be remembered was the role of Agha Hosseini in Fereydoun Gole’s Kondoi movie, especially the scene where you first meet Abi (Behrouz Voshouqi).
I knew Fereydon Gole by name and he was an ambitious person and had very good ideas. He had made one or two relatively good films. I happily accepted the role he offered me when I saw that I was co-starring with Behrouz.
**Feridon Gole was an interesting director, he has some good movies and some bad movies. It is not clear how the filmmaking was in which style and routine?
He was smart and energetic, if he wanted to, he could do a good job.
**In “Date of Fury,” a clumsy adaptation of John Sturges’s charming western The Last Train, Hill wanted to make you look like Anthony Quinn in that movie.
I wasn’t thinking of Anthony Quinn, I was myself. (laughs)
Was it a movie that you were satisfied with?
Who was the director?
** Saeed Mebeli, did you play with Fardin?
I have some memories of this movie that I told after my death. (laughs)
**Let’s get to your performance in “Shilat” which was amazing, with that warm type and interesting make-up. How was working with Reza Mirlohi?
His work was measured and thoughtful.
** Mirlohi was a good filmmaker.
He was an intellectual, he knew cinema, as well as literature. I was very satisfied with this role and I took it seriously, some of the roles from some directors were kind of temporary, we went to work and acted and that’s it. Sometimes everything was good, the group and the director were a kind of challenge and made us work better, sometimes the director came to the scene, but the star of the film was versatile, the director left, like Fardin who knew cinema well.
**I remember I was in a movie where Fardin acted and the director was Mr. Malian, but Fardin directed.
To be honest, Fardin had acted in all those movies, he had no education, but he had experience in the ins and outs of cinema and in fact he knew all the secrets of directing. Behrooz Thaoqi were good colleagues for me and I learned a lot from them.
**I want to tell you a little about your childhood, where did you grow up?
I was born in Tehran, Rey Street, Cascade Alley, was a complex where my uncle lived in the other yard with his daughter and son, and my mother and I lived in one of the houses there.
**Which school did you study?
Because of my father’s job, who was a great ambassador, we went to Turkey, France and Belgium and we were constantly traveling. The
**A school was not specified?
My first school was Masoud Saad, a Persian and French school.
** Then when did you go to France? at what time
I think it was in 1948, when my father got a mission, he was also separated from my mother. It was very sad. First, we went to Izmir, Turkey, and then to Paris, where I stayed and got my diploma. I also took the theater course there.
****When did you go to Geneva?
It was in 1960 and I got a degree in political law and judicial law. It was in Geneva that I met Fereydoun Rahnama, one of my father’s associates, and he encouraged me to focus more on theater. I also met a dear friend in Paris. that our friendship still stands, we traveled and have happy memories together, Dariush Shaygan is a great man, we were separated for a while and recently found each other again.
**Since when did you feel you were interested in cinema?
to the cinema since Jalal Moghadam came to me.
**You were not very interested in cinema before?
I used to go to the cinema, like an interested spectator.
**Which movie you saw at that time was interesting to you as a child? Did it have an effect? Do you remember a movie?
The movie was The Third Man.
**I know one of the best roles you have played, not in the cinema, but on TV, the role of Shish Anghi in Ali Hatami’s beautiful series Hazardastan, you were friends with Ali Hatami before this series, but why did you never act for him in a movie?
It did not happen.
I remember that you were very close.
Yes, very much, I remember I was in Paris and it was raining and it was a sad atmosphere. They called me that Ali Hatami had passed away, that atmosphere and rain and sadness and the loss of Ali was very sad, he was not a friend, but a brother to me.
** Little has been said about the role of Reza Shah in the movie Kamalul Molek, while you were very similar to this character and you were able to perform it very well.
I always try to choose and play the best role, but this is often not the case, conditions must be created for a good role to appear, you must be in the right space, the director’s film itself and most importantly the role. I think it’s kind of mental and psychological, a person must be in a good mood, he must like the role, he must be satisfied with the set, he must be satisfied with his salary, friends never say anything about the salary, it is a motivation, that’s all. . It should be looked at professionally.
**Who is your favorite actor? in general
Behrooz Voshouqi was really a professional actor, he had no education, but he was an actor in his nature.
**Who do you think we can call a good actor? That is, what characteristics should it have?
One thing has not been proven, for example, two plus two equals four, of course, classes, studies, universities, and good professors are a condition to be able to develop an actor.
**Don’t you think that acting should be instinctive in someone?
It must be instinctive. There should be a pull towards acting and of course the innate talent to want and do it.