inthetags:

Reblog and put in the tags your DILF celeb crush (bonus points if he’s middle aged) 

shakespearevillain:

I finally found video of Sid saying his name! 

I was trying to find something soothing and Youtube recommended a video of Sid at a Star Trek event in 1995. (Because, by now, the algorithm has figured out that I’m a nerd.) I didn’t even click on it because it said anything about his name. He had on an adorable, orange sweater vest over a white and grey checked shirt with ruched sleeves in the thumbnail and my thought was: “That is something I would wear. I need to see Sid rocking something I would wear” (not factoring in how self-conscious I’d be the next time I looked in the mirror).

It was fantastic on him. The light grey pants he had on gave him a librarian-meets-young-lad-about-to-voyage-on-the-sea vibe. And then he started talking about how he’d just changed his name, and that he’d asked some friends over a drunken dinner what his full name was and only two people could remember the “El Fadil” part. Which is baffling to me since I had expected, with all the fuss he went to, for the “El Fadil” part to be really hard to pronounce when really, the way he said it, it sounded almost exactly like it’s spelled: “El Fuh-dill.” “El” like the letter “L,” “fuh” like “fun” but without the “n,” and “dill” like the pickles or the herb. The accent is even on the first syllable where a stupid American or stupid Brit might naturally put it! How were casting agents getting this wrong?

Anyway, here’s the video. I hope you enjoy grainy video and soft audio because that’s what you’re getting. His outfit remains marvelous. (Garak must have dressed him, honestly.)  

piestrudel:

bakasara:

mooonpie:

I’m begging people to watch Big Battalions on BBC (its on channel 4 right now!) It’s about religion and conflict and all that fun stuff but early sid is just so god damn cute in it

[Image description: Young Alexander Siddig as Yousef in Big Battalions. He has short curly hair, wearing a black overcoat and he is smiling in one picture. End ID]

I was hoping someone would bring out punk sid BLESS!!! (ok not punk punk sid but. that scene is still universally labeled punk sid in my house)

tenderpoc:

Q: What is the most fun you have had in a role?

Sid: Fun might not be the right word here but my first acting job ever in a TV mini-series called Big Battalions (1992) took me to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem in the same month. Mecca was terrifying back then (it’s been done up since). I had to shave every conceivable hair on my body (except my head weirdly) because we were going to do “Umra” which is basically the mini version of Haj.
Two of us, Raad Rawi and I, were acting and we had three nominal crew to shoot this ‘documentary’ (we had to lie about that bit). Cameras in the great mosque are kind of a no-no – someone had been stoned just for taking a snapshot only weeks previously and we had quite a big one, with a 200mm lens, sitting on the roof. Raad and I would basically walk in a big circle with the thousands of people who were gathered to pray while a crew member would walk past us and whisper, “action,” whereupon we’d stop reciting the prayers we’d learned and start our dialogue. It would have been a hair-raising experience had I not already shaved most of mine off. Needless to say, our ‘man’ from the Saudi Ministry of Culture was arrested and disappeared about two days into our shoot.

al-the-grammar-geek:

lesbianjubilee:

i cant stand them

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  “One of [Andrew] Robinson’s greatest pleasures on DEEP SPACE NINE, he says, has been working with Siddig El Fadil, who plays Dr. Bashir. ‘Siddig and I get along so well, and we have become very good friends from this show. The chemistry works out beautifully, where you have this older, reptilian mystery man who isn’t what he seems to be, and this young innocent. It’s easy to see what Bashir’s getting from Garak: a political education. He’s learning about the byzantine, labyrinthine subtleties and intricacies that go on in the station.

  ‘It’s less clear, but equally strong, to see what Garak is getting from Bashir,’ he continues. ‘Bashir is a very decent person, a very moral man, a responsible scientist with a soul. I think Garak is learning some of this, becoming socialized. I don’t mean “humanized,” because that would be a “specist” [sic] thing to say. He’s gaining a certain sense of compassion, a certain morality and that’s very touching–that’s what I love about the relationship.’“

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unicorn-and-bluebells:

dreadshredder:

insane

I both hate that suit so much and want that suit so badly