Golshifteh Farahani, who last month brushed with controversy by allowing a nude photo of her to be published in France, has just been signed up for what is likely to be her biggest film appearance yet.
The producers of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series have announced that Golshifteh has joined the cast starring, as always, Johnny Depp for the fifth film in the popular series produced by Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
The announcement didn’t say what role Golshifteh will have in the film, entitled, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.”
Filming is about to begin in Queensland State in Australia.
Golshifteh first got into trouble with the regime in Tehran after taking a very modest role that is, a fully-clothed role as a nurse in the 2005 George Clooney film “Syriana.” The regime complained that she had not asked the government’s permission before taking the role.
The roof fell in and she was told she not welcome back in Iran after she was photographed with a breast partially exposed in 2012.
Then last month, she allowed herself to be photographed fully nude in France, where she lives. The regime has not said a word since then, treating her as a non-person.
She bared her body for fashion photographer Paolo Roversi in the French magazine Egoiste. The black-and-white image shows Farahani, 31, looking sultrily into the camera, her body slightly twisted to the side, with all parts in clear view.
“France has liberated me. [Paris] is the only place in the world where women do not feel guilty,” she told the luxury publication. “In the East, you are that [guilty] all the time, as soon as you feel your first sexual impulses.”
Kamal Nawash, an attorney and president of the Free Muslims Coalition, a non-profit organization that seeks to stamp out terrorism, argues that posing naked isn’t necessarily the best way to support women’s rights.
“In addition to degrading and objectifying women, posing naked may actually be counterproductive to supporting wo-men’s rights. Those opposing equality for women, will just point to the naked women and argue to the parents of the nation that it is their traditional values that prevent their daughters from being degraded and objectified as women,” he said. “This will be a powerful argument because most parents do not want to see their daughters posing naked.”
Farahani was formally exiled in early 2012 after she partly revealed her right breast in a black-and-white video with 30 other French film stars.
Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based Arabic television news station, reported that authorities phoned her family in Tehran to inform them that she would not be welcomed back and that she would be “punished, that her breasts would be cut off and presented [to her father] on a plate.”
The Islamic Republic News Agency later described her as the “hidden, disgusting face of cinema,” according to The Guardian. She was also lambasted by the Culture Ministry under President Ahmadi-nejad for “not wearing a headscarf” at the New York premiere of “Body of Lies.”
Farahani told the British newspaper The Telegraph that she was informed by a Ministry of Culture official that the country “does need any actors or artists” and that she should offer her “artistic services somewhere else.”
As for the new Pirates film, a summary issued by the producers says: “Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow (Depp) finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea including him. Captain Jack’s only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.”