Best Of Think: Racial Typecasting In Hollywood
December 28, 2015Having emigrated with his family to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, Maz Jobrani spent his childhood learning baseball and watching “Dallas.” Still, casting directors only wanted him to play extremists. This hour, we’ll talk about his experiences with typecasting, which he discusses in his book “I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man.”