<p>Ahmed Ghozzi, the international Egyptian actor was Zeinab&rsquo;s guest on &ldquo;Good Vibes Only&rdquo;, and he shared with Nile FM his first steps in acting and his experience playing&nbsp;Adnan Khashoggi in the Emmy-winning TV show "The Crown".&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ahmed Ghozzi said that he always had a passion for acting, but he started to take his first steps toward acting after he traveled to the UK to study business at&nbsp;the University of Leeds, he said, "I started my career in acting while I was in The UK. My father wasn&rsquo;t really with the idea of me getting into this industry, because it&rsquo;s not stable, and we decided that I&rsquo;m going to go to the UK and study business, and when I got there I really felt like this is not what I wanna do" he continued, "Toward the end of the year I started feeling like this is not my place and this is not what I want to be and this is not what I wanna study, but I was stuck, so I spoke with my mother and she pushed me to actually go and take some acting workshops and get to know more about myself and this craft".</p>
<p>Ghozzi headed back to Egypt the summer after that and joined his first acting workshop, &ldquo;I found this workshop, I registered, I got accepted and I joined, and then I went back to the UK, and I kind of started to put a hand on this question of "what is acting?" I think til this day I don&rsquo;t have an answer for this [question]". Shortly after that Ghozzi got his role in the short movie "Walkout 1", which screened in London in October 2020.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The international actor also talked about the first role that he got in Egypt, which was in the acclaimed TV show "The Choice" season two, Ghozzi said, "I went for several auditions and the casting director of &ldquo;The Choice&rdquo; called me, and gave me the role a couple of weeks after the audition". He also got the role in the TV show "Between Heaven and Earth" on the same day which was a turning point for him as he was questioning if he should quit pursuing acting.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>He also shared his unique experience portraying Adnan Khashoggi in the fifth season of the hit TV show "The Crown", saying that his acting coach recommended the show to him and described it as "insanely beautiful", Ghozi said, "I finished the first 4 seasons in about maybe a week or something, and then out of nowhere a couple of weeks later I get this audition from my agent saying &ldquo;hey, this is an audition for &ldquo;The Crown&rdquo; the fifth season please submit your tape, I did and they didn&rsquo;t call me for about a month, and it&rsquo;s usually after doing an audition you have to let it go because it might not come back and most of the time it doesn't come back, so I just let it go&ldquo;. Then he explained that a month later his agent called him again and told him to come for a second audition and after that, he got the part.</p>
<p>When Ghozzi asked about his initial reaction after getting the part, "I was overwhelmed, but I wasn&rsquo;t overwhelmed in a negative way, I was just filled with all those feelings and sensations. I was like how am I going to start working on this? and what am I going to do? Which is the same thing that happened literally with every single project that comes. All this energy hit you and you need to just calm yourself down and really center yourself and ground yourself and everything works at the end of the day&rdquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Ghozzi also talked about his passion to play his character in "The Crown" saying, "I really enjoyed Adnan. I really enjoyed getting to know this person because there&rsquo;s only one book that&rsquo;s written about Adnan Khashoggi, and there&rsquo;s only one interview for Adnan where he actually gets to open up and speak about his personal life, so getting to know this person and try to understand who he is, and who he was young and the different stages that he&rsquo;s been through throughout his life were such an interesting thing to get into".&nbsp;</p>
<p>Zeinab also asked Ahmed Ghozzi, if he could choose a character to play that's already been played, what would he choose? "Al Pacino in &ldquo;Scarface&rdquo;, Al Pacino &ldquo;Scent of A Women&rdquo; and Joaquin Phoenix in "Joker", I would actually love to play something like that, I can&rsquo;t imagine how intense his experience was, but I would love to play something like that," he answered.</p>
<p>Finally, Ahmed Ghozzi gave a piece of advice to encourage aspiring actors to pursue their dreams, and said, "Follow your dream and never allow anyone to get in the way".</p>
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