I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
Directors, like actors, get typecast.
I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.
Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
I don't see myself as a short-film director, and I'm not a commercial director.
I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.
You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
