“I play cards, backgammon, dominoes ,” Kihlstedt adds.įazal, however, presents a different story. “I think the last game I played was Crash Bandicoot when I was 12 years old,” Doumit says, adding that this world was entirely new for her. Prior to working in the industry as actors, both Doumit and Kihlstedt had little exposure to games.
“You don’t realize how much it means to you until you are playing a character that you thought would never be written.”Īlongside Doumit, THR heard from fellow stars Rya Kihlstedt, who plays CIA officer Kate Laswell, and Zehra Fazal, who appears in the game as the wife of antagonist Jamal “The Butcher” Rahar, to share their experiences joining the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise. “To be able to play a Middle Eastern woman like my role models is very special to me,” Doumit tells The Hollywood Reporter. Shortly after its debut in October, Modern Warfare topped the list of the year’s best-sellers.
The role is also the first starring turn in a game for the actress, who has built up a roster of credits in film and television projects such as Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Amazon’s The Boys. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Claudia Doumit stars as Urzikstan Liberation Force leader Farah Karim, the series’ first playable female protagonist.
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