The French film "Taxi", combining elements of an action movie, comedy and detective story, was released in 1998 and turned out to be a pretty profitable project for its creators. The film at the box office has collected more than $ 200 million. Famous filmmaker Luke Besson is the author of the script for the movie Taxi. Actors who played the main roles, became world famous precisely because of this film.
Plot
A young pizza delivery man named Daniel, who becomes a taxi driver, is the protagonist of the movie Taxi. The actor who performed this role among the audience even today, almost 20 years after the premiere of the film, is associated with this film character. One day, Daniel loses his post in a pizza delivery organization and takes a job as a taxi driver.
He manages to complete orders rather quickly. The thing is that Daniel is modifying his already not new Peugeot in a cunning way. And of course, the main character does not like the policemen who control speeding on the roads. Once, Daniel meets Emilien, a policeman who repeatedly tries to pass the law exams without success. This is another important character in the plot of the movie "Taxi". The actor, who embodied on the screen the image of a policeman, an idiot, received the Cesar Award for this role.
Emilien once gets into the car of the protagonist. He is dressed in civilian clothes. Daniel, unaware of the fact that he is driving a police officer, as usual, exceeds the speed. And then a dilemma arises before him: to lose the right to drive a car or work for the police for a month. The protagonist chooses the last option. In the future, the heroes of the movie "Taxi", the actors and roles of which are presented below, are chasing members of a gangster group, driving around Marseille in Mercedes. So who played the main characters in this film?
The film "Taxi": actors
The hapless taxi driver was played by Sami Naseri. Frederick Difenthal played the role of a policeman and partner of the protagonist. In the article you can see photos of the actors of the movie "Taxi". About Nasseri will be discussed in more detail. The film also played Marion Cotillard, Bernard Farsi, Manuel Gurari, Edouard Montut, Emma Sjöberg.
Sami Naseri
The actor was born in 1961 in Paris. His childhood was spent in a rather modest house on one of the streets of the French capital. Naseri's parents had nothing to do with the theater or the cinema. But one of the brothers also became an actor.
The fate of the leading role in the movie "Taxi" is not easy. At the age of sixteen, he tried to earn money. But, apparently, Naseri did not succeed in this by legal means. At seventeen, the future actor became addicted to drugs, and even after a while he was arrested for robbery.
Even in the most difficult periods in his life, when Nasseri had to lead an openly marginal lifestyle, he dreamed of a scene. The path to achieving the cherished goal, of course, was a long one. The aspiring actor took part in numerous extras, attended many auditions. The first director to draw attention to a young man with a non-French appearance, eagerly seeking to get on the screen, was Tom Gilu. It was he who gave Nasseri a chance by inviting him to play one of the heroes in the film "Paradise".
But the real fame for the actor, as already mentioned, came after the release of the film, which is discussed in this article. Other paintings with the participation of Nasserie: "Love in Paris", "Free Fall", "Hornet's Nest", "Patriots".