mauritanian," when mohamedou ould slahi's character meets with his lawyers nancy hollander and terry duncanley and jodie foster. >> iean wh i say. the is neviden. i trust you to trt me. i'm innont. i'm innont. wh do you ed to seto belie this? >> dsn't matt what we believ it matrs whawe can pve. juslike my terrogats. >> we know y are innoct. we do. but weave tove tha ande can't do tt unlesse see t legationagainst u. th is all are askg for. >> wn you you wt to sue the govement, whatoes that mean? here will behree namesn the wsuit. e unitedtateof ameri, dona rumsfel and geoe w. bu. >> [lahter] sure y not? amy: that is a clip from "the mauritanian" featuring jodie foster and shailene woodley as the lawyers nancy hollander and terry duncan. and our next guest actor tahar rahim, who was playing mohamedou ould slahi. for more, we go to tahar rahim speaking to us from paris. welcome to democracy now! it is an honor to have you with us. we're also joined by the director kevin macdonald. tahar, talk about your decision to play mohamedou in this utterly painful film, tremendous amount of focus on tort

somehow just being with no harm of you talking to him promising him that i would never leave him and terry duncan my co-counsel to the same thing we will always be here as long as you're here. but yes i cry every time i left him every single time but how would i want to trust nancy so actually when he came to me. it was almost of to feel 4 years of my detention and i was i would like to advise everyone you know to make sure they get a lawyer before 4 years in custody so i did not have much of a choice. it's. ok you know germans you go dick of there while meaning the torture or too many choices i didn't have any choice and when nancy came to me she was the 1st american civilian. you know like i ever interacted with you know after so many years and i was so happy i saw in her busy view. and i wasn't disappointed when i just give working with them i mean without nancy. without them as i wouldn't be talking to. me i'm so disappointed like all many people so these people are calling me after the movie this is a mohammedan this is so great i love nancy i want to be a lawyer. not one single person calle