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The cast and crew of Emirati body swap comedy Rashid & Rajab answer our burning questions in the first episode of The Black Box -- from who they want to switch bodies with to whether they'd survive a day in each other's lives. We chat to director Mohammed Saeed Harib, producer Ali Mostafa and actors Shadi Alfons and Marwan Abdullah Saleh ahead of the film's release today on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

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Transcript
00:00Are you Sadie Alphonse?
00:13Marwan Abdel Saleh
00:15Shadi Alphonse from Egypt, Rajab's character
00:17And I'm Rashid's character
00:19And the opposite is Kazanik
00:21Why is the question so long?
00:31Do you live in Egypt?
00:35And you drive in the crowd
00:37And you're still in Egypt
00:39And you spend 22 hours a day filming
00:41It's normal
00:43It's just one thing
00:46It's normal
00:47No, I'm just kidding
00:49It would be unfair
00:50Because I'm going to live my life and enjoy it
00:52But that's what stars do
00:53You'll bear the crowd and you'll bear the promise
00:55And you'll bear both
00:57But you'll be saved
00:58God willing
00:59I'll save you
01:30It was like that's what making a movie looks like
01:32You have to switch lives with someone for a day
01:34Who would you choose?
01:35Why?
02:00How do you live? What do you do on a day like this?
02:02Why didn't you get a full meter?
02:04They already know
02:06They know
02:07I want to know what they don't know
02:29If I fight with someone
02:31I'll just buy the coffee
02:32I think I'd like to switch lives with Ali
02:34Maybe for one day
02:36I'm always wondering about how his mind works
02:39I'd like to be you for one day
02:41How would you want to be me for one day?
02:43I'm already struggling being myself
02:46I've been trying to be someone else
02:48This is the 200th question
02:52Who's any other actor in the world who acted in a movie?
02:55Marwan Shad
02:58Easy, who's next?
03:00I would love to be able to direct Nicole Kidman
03:06I think the person that came to my mind
03:08God rest his soul
03:09Is Philip Seymour Hoffman
03:11He would be a joy to watch on camera
03:14Should I answer him seriously?
03:16Leave him out of this
03:18Benzene
03:19You have a great taste
03:21He understands Marwan's voice
03:23The actor in Breaking Bad, Walter White
03:26Next
03:31Leave him out of this
03:33What made you want to be an actor?
03:35I wanted to be a professional football player
03:37Why?
03:39My dad
03:40Come down here
03:42I wanted to be a football player
03:45Until I got injured in 1997
03:47So I had to go back to my hobby
03:49Acting
03:50You're a creative person
03:52And this is your plan B
03:54If I had a plan A, I would have taken the world cup
03:58I was 14 years old when I decided that I wanted to make movies
04:02I was 9
04:04A bit earlier
04:06Does that count?
04:08Relatively though
04:10You weren't a man
04:12What was your favorite scene to film in Russia?
04:15The slap
04:17The slap when you got hit
04:19The slap
04:20The whole scene or the pain?
04:22The pain
04:23The slap?
04:24The slap that I discovered today
04:26The slap, Alphonse?
04:28Come and watch it
04:33The first time you asked someone in Sweden
04:35I liked the scene where you slapped him in the face
04:38Why?
04:39Because there were a lot of good scenes
04:41But they were deleted
04:43How do you think Mohamed Saeed Harab
04:45Myself
04:47Did on his feature film?
04:50Well, I'm not yet a film director to that standard
04:54I feel that I have presented my third feature film
04:57Thanks to having three amazing directors behind me
05:01Who acted as producers
05:03They made me look good
05:05How do you think Mohamed Saeed Harab did on his first feature film?
05:09Which feature film?
05:11Who's Mohamed?
05:12I'm Saeed Harab
05:14This guy is, Mashallah, a blessing to this country
05:20His creativity is phenomenal
05:23As a director, whatever you feel, your surroundings feel
05:27And this guy would show up on set all the time
05:30With such positive energy
05:32That you just loved being there
05:35What's more difficult, making a show like Fridge
05:37Or making a movie like Rasta Raga?
05:39No questions, hands down, making movies
05:42Because with animation, we have steps and phases
05:45That we work on
05:47And we are in a nice air-conditioned environment
05:49With movies, it's like a crazy troupe of nomads
05:53And it's like a circus, a mad circus
05:55You hate it for the first five days
05:58But then you miss it so much when you're up
06:01Last question
06:03Describe Rashid and Ragab in three words
06:06Fashion?
06:12Fun?
06:14Experience?
06:16For me, funny, adventurous
06:21And culturally insightful
06:23That's the last one
06:32What would you say to the Egyptian viewers?
06:34You'll honor us
06:36And we'll be waiting for you at Eid al-Fitr
06:40I hope…
06:42The smart one, the one who speaks Egyptian
06:44And I hope…
06:46You're cheating
06:48I hope you like…
06:50I hope you like…
06:52No, in Egyptian
06:54Don't cheat
06:56In this case
06:58I'd like to say
07:00Happy Eid
07:02Happy Eid
07:04In Kuwait they say happy Eid
07:06You're talking about UAE
07:08And I hope you…
07:10I hope you…
07:12Is that a word?
07:14No, no
07:16And I hope you…
07:18Peace be upon you
07:20That's my show
07:32Thank you for watching
07:34And don't miss Rashid and Ragab
07:38See you next time
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