How Tahar Rahim transcended the prisons of ‘The Mauritanian’
For Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian” was about prisons — at Guantanamo Bay, and of the mind.
“It’s about the horrors he has been through, but also there’s a light inside of this character,” French-born Rahim says of playing longtime detainee and now bestselling author Mohamedou Ould Slahi. “The way he was able to go through this ... he became so wise to be able to not hold a grudge against anybody after all of this. It’s almost incredible for a human being.”