

I’ve never been happier! I’d never been to Morocco, and I feel like I look Moroccan, so I felt finally I could look at another face and feel calm.

This film takes place in Saudi Arabia, but you filmed in Morocco. The film recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will be going into a wide release while she was in New York, Choudhury spoke to DuJour about filming the adaptation of a Dave Eggers book, working in Morocco and filming her favorite scene. A big part of that transformation has to do with unexpectedly meeting a doctor named Zahra, played by Sarita Choudhury ( The Hunger Games, Homeland). In A Hologram for the King, the latest from Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer, a troubled American businessman (Tom Hanks) finds himself in Saudi Arabia on a business trip that becomes something more akin to a vision quest.
