THR: You describe yourself as a “journeyman”. The Georgian project is about a hijacking that took place in the 1980s and I would play a lawyer, but both these projects are still under discussion. They’re asking me to commit to shooting in Moscow in December. It’s called Duel and takes up the idea that had Pushkin lived 20 years longer and associated with Lermontov, they would have had a major impact on the development of Russian society. THR: You’ve also been asked to appear in a Russian and Georgian film.ĪSSANTE:There’s a Russian feature project in which I’ve been asked to play Pushkin. I’m also working on delivering a perfect English and Russian version. It’s about the world of warlords and is privately financed by a Kazakh industrialist. Then I was asked to appear in and co-produce a thriller by Salamat Mukhammed Ali. The invitation came out of my involvement with Romanian film California Dreaming. THR: You’ve also been working in Kazakhstan.ĪSSANTE: I have several years of experience spending time in Kazakhstan and made a short documentary for the World Forum for Spiritual Culture, Dialog from the Steppes. THR: The film is due out next year and you are in talks with some big names for some additional roles.ĪSSANTE: The last leg of the shooting is in New York now and we’ve hoping attract a major actor for two or three scenes, such as Robert De Niro. I’m not Chaco, and I don’t endorse non-native people playing indigenous roles, but Diego told me they wanted me to be their representative. I speak a little Italian myself, but this is totally different. ![]() I was invited by the Chaco Indians to play a shaman and needed to learn their language, Qom. ![]() How were you cast in that role?ĪSSANTE: The film is about the eradication of the Chaco Indian population and the abuse of the Amazon by multinational corporations. THR: You play a native Indian shaman in Argentine director Diego Rafecas’ First Law (Ley Primera). The actor, who was at the Sarajevo Film Festival to promote a short film, The Fix, written and directed by fellow New Yorker, Ante Novakovic, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the challenges of working as a “jobbing actor” in the continuing recessionary environment in the film industry. STORY: First World War Centenary Events Could Help Boost Sarajevo Film Festival The actor, whose past roles include Dominic Catano in American Gangster, Henri Tremont in Private Benjamin and Caesar Castillo in The Mambo Kings, plays a Chaco Indian spirit man who exclusively delivers his lines in the indigenous tribe’s obscure Qom language.Īssante, who is also appearing in a Kazakh thriller he is co-producing, The Whole World at Our Feet, says he is in talks with Russian and Georgian producers for roles in features in those countries too. SARAJEVO – New York-born US character actor Armand Assante, known for his roles as an underworld hard man, is to play a native South American Indian shaman in an Argentine film due for release next year.
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