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| 2 | * AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/TonyShalhoub agreed to be a part of this because he felt it was refreshing to be in a movie that humanized Arabs compared to most Americans movies. |
| 3 | * FakeNationality: |
| 4 | ** Maybe subverted into an ActorAllusion, as Samir Nazhde is played by French ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping you can hear it]]) -of Tunisian descent- actor Sami Bouajila, and even though he is Palestinian, Haddad suggests to deport him to Tunis (although there are Palestinians all over the Arab world now). |
| 5 | ** Played with: the Lebanese-American agent Frank Haddad is played by Creator/TonyShalhoub, who, although born in America, has Lebanese ancestry (his father Joseph was from Lebanon and immigrated to the US when he was 10, and his mother Helen was a second-generation Lebanese-American). His character immigrated to the US from Lebanon though. |
| 6 | * LifeImitatesArt: Three years after the movie came out, 9/11 happened, with many parallels to the film. Edward Zwick was shocked of how his movie became reality and even [[CreatorBacklash cringes]] from seeing the image of the Twin Towers in the background of his own movie's poster. |
| 7 | -->'''Zwick:''' [[https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/siege-struck-close-home-sept-11-attacks-article-1.2786028 The leap of imagination it took to perform that horrific act exceeded my own imagination. Because my imagination happily does not go to as dark a place as that]]. |
| 8 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/TonyShalhoub, generally known as a goofy sitcom actor, here plays an angry, snarking [=FBI=] agent. |
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