Word: rossoukh
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...might say it’s impossible for an anthropologist to get too much hands-on experience in the field. Ramyar Rossoukh, teaching fellow for Anthropology 120, “Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film,” almost did. While shooting the film Coming of Age on location in Tehran, Iran, he nearly drowned...
...first-time movie actor was playing a character based loosely on himself—an American-born half-Iranian, half-Latino young man, who travels to Iran to find his roots. His character attempts suicide after a confrontation with his father. Rossoukh, who did all his own stunts, had to jump into a deep pool of water with a rock tied to his ankle by a rope in a slipknot. Though he had practiced untying it, during the actual filming, while resting on the bottom of the pool and acting as if he were drowning, Rossoukh had trouble releasing...