He watched a scene on a monitor in which Tahar Rahim played him and Jodie Foster played Nancy Hollander, the lawyer who was instrumental in Slahi’s release. Nancy Hollander was there as well. The Mauritanian is different in that is it based on Slahi’s first-hand account, Guantánamo Diary, published in 2015. “But I just don’t think we live in that world, do we, of black-and-white goodies and baddies? As well as the set of The Mauritanian, Slahi visited another prison there: Robben Island, where Mandela and other enemies of the apartheid regime were held for decades.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 06:00 UTC