It’s hard to say that looking like a terrorist would be a good thing, but it hasn’t gone so badly for Navid Negahban.
The Iranian-born actor, who has played a range of bad guys during his career, currently plays terrorist Abu Nazir on the Showtime hit series “Homeland,” and the success of the series has made him one of the world’s best-known non-terrorists.
That may be a good thing for his acting career. Turns out it’s not so good at airports.
“What happens is that I’m playing all of these different characters and my facial hair changes and I have different looks,” said Negahban on a recent cell phone call from Los Angeles. “When I’m at the airport, the agents look at my passport and they look at me and there is something in their eyes, and you can see them thinking, ‘I know this guy. Where have I seen him before?'”
