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07.12.2022 - 17:31 / deadline.com
Writer and stand-up comedian Mo Amer was the latest Hollywood name to pass through Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea film festival Wednesday where he discussed his varied career as part of the festival’s ‘In Conversation’ series and the potential of a second season of his well-received Netflix comedy Mo.
Amer, who is also known for his role in the popular Hulu/A24 comedy Ramy, wrote, produced, and stars in Mo, which is inspired by his own life story. The show follows a fictional Palestinian refugee who flees Kuwait with his mother, Yusra, and brother Sameer after the start of the Gulf War. The family finally lands in Houston, Texas, where they start the years-long business of securing asylum.
The show debuted on the streamer in August and quickly became one of the year’s breakouts, picking up a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series Under 40 Minutes. When asked whether a second season was on the horizon, Amer quickly responded: “Ask Netflix, I don’t know what’s going on. We’ve only won awards and we’re in the top 10 lists. I don’t know what’s going on.”
Away from acting, Amer has also enjoyed an extensive career as a touring stand-up comedian. And earlier this summer, he made his first big Hollywood appearance in the DC comic book flick Black Adam, starring opposite Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a The Rock.
Amer said he took his mother to the film’s premiere, and it was the first film she had seen in an American theater in over two decades after she walked out of a screening of the 1998 film The Siege with his brother due to its depiction of Palestinians in America.
“The movie is like the most racist problematic film that depicts Palestinians as terrorists in America,” Amer said. “My mum had a pickle, no popcorn, a pickle. And in the middle
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Mo Amer took inspiration from his own life for his Netflix comedy series Mo, co-created by Ramy Youssef, which follows a Palestinian refugee seeking asylum and U.S. citizenship in Houston. The series premiered in August on the streamer and quickly received acclaim for being one of the first American TV series to feature a Palestinian-American refugee protagonist. It also scored a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series Under 40 Minutes.
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