Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame: Fahim Fazli (Actor, Author, Motivational Speaker)
“[On being typecast as a Terrorist] I’m labeled as a distinguished, weathered man, and I’ve been playing terrorists the last twenty five years. I’ve done Iron Man (2008), 12 Strong (2018), American Sniper (2014). I’ve done so many terrorist movies. The reason I’m picking the terrorist character is because I wanna introduce how evil they are.”
Actor Fahim Fazli, in the Studio on Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame, July 11, 2025!
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Air date: 07/11/2025
Tune in as Poorman interviews Fahim Fazli (Dari: فهیم فاضلی), Afghan American film actor, author and collaborative author, script collaborator, motivational speaker, and Afghan culture technical advisor.
Fazli was most recently cast by Writer/Director James Gunn in the new Superman movie Superman 2025, released on July 11, 2025, playing the role of Jarhanpurian Village Leader. In the DC Comics Universe, Jarhanpur is a fictional, ancient, and secluded nation ruled by a monarch who inherits the title of Rama Khan, elemental defender of Jarhanpur who has clashed with the Justice League.
Fazli is the most successful Afghan-Born American Actor in Hollywood due to the popularity of the Hollywood films he has starred in since 1986.
He was born into a Pashtun family in Kabul, Afghanistan. He left Afghanistan and settled in California, United States in the 1980’s due to the Soviet-Afghan War.
He returned to Afghanistan as an interpreter and as a cultural advisor during tours with the U.S. Marines in 2009 and 2010. After returning, he wrote a memoir, Fahim Speaks that was released in early 2012.
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