Captain Phillips: You had thirty thousand dollars. Captain Phillips: The problem is not me talking. Captain Phillips: 6 million dollars? So what are you doing here? Muse: Shut up, Irish. Captain Phillips: They would rather sink this boat than let you get me Somalia. Captain Phillips: They can't let you win. Captain Phillips: The Navy is not gonna let you win. Muse: Maybe in America, Irish, maybe in America. Muse: I'm the captain now.Ĭaptain Phillips: There's got to be something other than being a fisherman or kidnapping people. Muse: Thirty thousand dollars? What am I? Do I look like a beggar? Captain Richard Phillips: You know, I think we have in the safe, we got thirty thousand dollars. Kenny? Kenny: Yeah? Captain Phillips: Kenny, what do we have in the safe? About what, thirty.thirty thousand dollars in the safe? Kenny: Uh.yeah. Muse: Dollars? Captain Phillips: Uh.we do. What items you carry? Captain Phillips: What do you mean? Muse: TV? Car? Captain Phillips: Shipping TV, car? No, no, we just uh.we just got. Muse: From now on this one is called Irish, okay? Muse: Okay, Irish. Najee: Yes! Yes! Muse: You, Yankee? Captain Phillips: Me? Muse: Yeah? Captain Phillips: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ship, where from? Captain Phillips: The ship? Uh.America, it's an American ship. When we get paid, everything gonna be okay. Barkhad was thrilled to act alongside Tom Hanks, aka, 'that guy from Forrest Gump.'Subscribe to watch more Team Coco videos. Captain Phillips: They're not here to fish. No problem, Irish everything gonna be okay.ĭialogue UKMTO Officer: Maersk Alabama, you should alert your crew, get your fire hoses ready.You said this was just business! Is this how you do business?.You're not just a fisherman! You're not just a fisherman!.If they find you, remember, you know this ship, they don't. Listen up, we have been boarded by armed pirates.His roommate will be Faysal Ahmed, the big guy, who has has an agent, too. After the Oscars, Abdi plans to move to L.A. Recently, Abdi requested that he be allowed to stay at a commuter's hotel near LAX, to be closer to his friend, a Somali cabdriver from Minneapolis, who shuttles him around for free. The town car is available only for official publicity events. When Abdi is in Los Angeles to promote the film, he subsists on a per diem, good at the Beverly Hilton, where the studio likes to put him up. Either way, I cannot be working here.' On the day of the premiere he quit. 'How I thought about it was, like, When the movie came out, reviews either gonna be good or bad. After filming, he went back to work for his brother, selling mobile phones at his shop in a Somali-run mall in Cedar-Riverside. For his work on Captain Phillips, a fifty-five-million-dollar film, Abdi earned sixty-five thousand dollars. "Abdi, who learned to swim, shoot, and steer a skiff, now finds himself in a predicament similar to Muse's at the time of the film's action: having improbably boarded the ship, he realizes that his grasp on power is tenuous, and he is still waiting for a payday. How Barkhad Abdi Came to Star in 'Captain Phillips' is featured in the March 3rd edition of the New Yorker. Moreover, Abdi's clothes are loaners– a striking revelation in light of the rags-to-riches (or " limo driver to contender") narrative making the rounds. The interview goes on to explain that the town car is available only for official publicity events. to promote the $200 million+ grossing film, he subsists on a per diem good solely at the Beverly Hilton (where the studio likes to put him up). Further, according to the piece, every time the studio trots him out to L.A. And yet, the Academy Award nominee tells the New Yorker's Dana Goodyear that he was paid $65,000 for his work on the $55 million film. Abdi is arguably the one positive development to come out of the problematic "Best Picture" contender. For his portrayal of Abduwali Muse (whose own account of the events we hope to someday hear), Abdi won a BAFTA earlier this month for best "Supporting Actor." This weekend the Somali-born/Minnesota-based (brand)newcomer is up against Bradley Cooper, Michael Fassbender, Jonah Hill, and Jared Leto at the Oscars. As cringeworthy as Captain Phillips was to watch ( Paul Greengrass' "true story" serum had audiences knowing who to root for/against from the very moment America's sweetheart appeared on screen), the first time actor brought a notion of humanity to a role historically given one dimensional credence. If there was any semblance of multi-dimensional storytelling (shades of grayness) to the Hollywood-ized account that pitted Tom Hanks and Navy SEALs against teenage Somali pirates, it came from a breakout performance from Barkhad Abdi.
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