Emile Hirsch says he got the script and started reading it and thought…

“This is a great drama …and then it gets to some of the raunchier scenes like sex scenes…and I had never really done this before.. .”

“It was a real privilege to work on the movie with Penelope. She’s a great actress and she’s also got such charisma and natural charm. She’s is a great combination of talented but really funny. Not everybody who is really talented has this a sense of humour…”                                                                         Emile HIrsch

Twice Born is a movie that deeply affects both the audience and the actors. The actors interviewed were transformed by the experience and they were greatly affected by its relationship to the real history of the war in Bosnia. Some of the actors were from Bosnia including Adnan Haskovic, who shares his experience with us here in this interview. His character Gojco is a poet and a long time friend of Diego.He felt the story was so deep, so emotional a love story but also a lot of things happened there in Sarajevo that makes it so much more than that.

“Between 1984 and 1992 during the siege, a lot of things happened in Sarajevo… I was a child back then… You have a feeling it is a true story…Margaret wrote it as a fiction and although it is fiction, it is so powerful you have a feeling it is a true story… So it was very special for me to play this role.”            Adnan Haskovic

Saadet Akosy also found the love story and the wrenching drama of trying to have a baby deeply moving and very close to today’s reality. It was a role that she found very difficult to leave behind when she left the set. The best part of the book she felt was the very well defined characters and the empathy they emoted. She hopes the movie conveys this as well.

myETVmedia was fortunate to catch up with the filmmakers and principal actors from the cast of Twice Born on the Red Carpet at TIFF 2012 and had time for some interesting conversations about this internationally acclaimed story.

-Moira Romano