Don Cheadle, Traitor

The Oscar-nominated Hotel Rwanda star has found another
edgy role in fictional Samir Horn, a devout Muslim caught up in very
gray espionage and counter-terrorism areas of the war on terror.
Traitor marks screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff's directorial
debut and costars Guy Pearce as the FBI agent trailing Horn.
Cheadle, laconic and laid back, was interviewed at Manhattan's W
Union Square Hotel and talks about his choice of roles, mocks the
notion that he would ever open up about the emotional costs of
acting in an interview and disputes the idea that his political work
on behalf of the genocide in Darfur gives him a political activist
actor label.

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