Mehdi Nejadgholami talks about his role in Offense

by Sasha Mortel

PAGILAS, Philippines – Someone has chosen to tell a different story. Allowing this mystery is change. Yes, that’s right. That is the latest slogan of writer, producer and director Julius Roden’s latest horror film for Halloween 2011 presentation.

One of the cast members is Mehdi Nejadgholami who plays Dale.

He has appeared in several independent films; the latest was ‘Brod’ topbilled by Jess Mendoza Nicole Andrew Guila Neil Tibayan Patrick Esteban Venj Pellena. Directed by Ray Gibraltar.

The Filipino-Iranian actor is  also the commercial model of Wendy’s, HSBC and Joel Cruz’s perfumes. He did a lot of commercials before joining the movies.

Pagilas Insider Sasha Mortel was able to get an interview during the story conference of the movie Offense.
Could you tell us something about your character in this movie?

I play Dale. I’m friends with Mickey (Joseph Ison) and Jacob (Andrew Schimmer) and we did something really really bad in this movie. he teased us with this tidbit.

What was that bad thing that you did in the film?

I’m sorry. I can’t spill more details. All I can say is that this movie is a must see movie for all women in the whole world. Definitely. he guaranteed.

So did you have man to man bed scenes in this movie? You see, most indie films nowadays…

You know, that’s what happened to our indie films in the Philippines. We’ve been typecast and most people, whenever they hear something like indie films, you know what I’m saying? That ‘indie film’ thing, what comes to mind? They think about something like ‘oh it’s another gay film’. Don’t get me wrong. Just because I’m saying this it would suggest that I have something against the gay community. I don’t, okay? It’s just that I think we have to sort of, you know, try to balance the kind of movies we produce. But then again, I’m just an actor and I’m just here to do my job. I mean, my last film ‘Brod’, it had gay theme in it so… but this one, it’s not another gay indie film, it’s a suspense-thriller and I think our beloved writer, producer and director Julius Roden, he’s a genius. I thought the script was amazing. the former model of Monaco shared with us with full sincerity.

But you’ve already worked with Roden in All About Adam season one, right?

Oh yes I have. We’ve shot some scenes for a couple of episodes. I really thought he’s brilliant and he doesn’t shout at his actors like what most directors do. I mean, well, every director has their own technique in getting to their actors. Julius Roden is cool. He has this unique way in getting to you and bring out the best in you to make you really do your part well for a particular scene. So yeah… he added.

How’s it like working with Andrew Schimmer?

It was cool. He’s very professional and fun to work with. Very accessible. And everything turned out just fine on the set. It was great. Mehdi Nejadgholami smiled as he closed the interview with Sasha Mortel.