The day after he won the 2012 Best Foreign Language Oscar for “A Separation,” filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who is a master at exposing domestic discord through his multi-layered screenplays, toldย a touching story about an inspirational encounterย with a fellow Iranian.
“The following afternoon, I went on that same street where the Kodak theater is,” Farhadi told TheWrap’s Steve Pondย at a post-screening Q&A of his tripย down Hollywood Blvd.ย “I wanted to see what that street was like, it was just ordinary guys whereas the night before it had been full of all of this celebration.
“We are walking with my friends on the sidewalk and somebody approaching from afar had their arms spread wide open and seemed very surprised at seeing me,” the director continued.