It's been quite a year for Tahar Rahim. Thanks to The Mauritanian — in which he played real-life Guantanamo prisonerMohamedou Ould Slahi and starred alongside Jodie Foster — the 39-year-old has been getting some of the best film reviews since his phenomenal, Cesar-winning breakout performance in 2009's A Prophet.
His powerful and deeply movingportrayal of the now-freed Slahi landed him a Golden Globe nomination, and later this month he's up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Chadwick Boseman for the best actor BAFTA.
But before then, Rahim is hitting screens in the U.S. in an almost polar-opposite role. In The Serpent, an eight-part series that debuts on Netflix on Friday (as a BBC co-production, it aired in the U.K.
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