A great has passed.
Homayoun Ershadi, my father in The Kite Runner, a magnificent soul who touched so many millions of people around the world. I am so sad to hear of your passing.
What an honour to have worked with you, and to be able to recall and cherish your voice and energy and humour.
It is a very special bond when someone plays your father in film. It certainly was for me. In the photo of us together, I know exactly what he’s saying - This is my son. He’s like my son.
What a special bond that film created for us, before the world wrote us into other stories.
My condolences to his family and friends, and all those whose lives he touched. If you don’t know him, please search out his films.
His first was with Abbas Kiarostami, who spotted him at a traffic light in his Land Rover smoking one of his Bahman cigarettes, and asked him to do a screen test for what became The Taste of Cherry. The first of these images. His soul in that film is at the heart of the Palme d’Or the film won.