<p>Rising Egyptian actress, Lina Sophia Ben Hamman, was Zeinab&rsquo;s guest on &ldquo;Good Vibes Only&rdquo; and she talked about the early stages of her acting career, and her experience with acting in French.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lina Sophia made her film debut with the hit romantic movie &ldquo;Hepta: The Last Lecture&rdquo; which was based on a best-selling novel. Lina was just 7 years old at the time but she revealed that she started her career even earlier than that &ldquo;I actually started commercials when I was 4 years old, I don&rsquo;t remember not acting I don&rsquo;t remember not being in front of the camera&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Lina said that she fell in love with acting the first time she walked into a set when she was 4 years old, &ldquo;The first time I went on set, I was about 4 years old and it was a commercial, and I just fell in love with it. I can be a very shy person around people, but if there&rsquo;s a camera it changes everything&rdquo;.</p>
<p>When Lina Sophia was asked how she landed her role in &ldquo;Hepta&rdquo;, she replied, &ldquo;When I used to do ads in Tunisia, there was a film director who wanted to sign a 5-year contract with me, but I had to come back to Egypt at some point so I told him &ldquo;No sorry, I have to go back to my country&rdquo;, but he gave us the address to casting agency in Egypt, and the day I went there was the day of the audition, so I feel like it was meant to be&rdquo;, she recalled how nervous she was during the audition, &ldquo;It was my first audition, I was really excited but I was very nervous, and they give you the script five minutes before you enter so it was really hard, but I got the role&rdquo;.</p>
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<p>Lina also talked about her fondest memories from the set of &ldquo;Hebta&rdquo;, saying &ldquo;I think I fell in love with film directing while filming this movie. Behind the scenes, there are so many jobs that don&rsquo;t have anything to do with each other but have one goal at the end, and it&rsquo;s very fascinating to watch&rdquo;.</p>
<p>After &ldquo;Hepta: The Last Lecture&rdquo;, Lina&rsquo;s career skyrocketed and she got many roles in multiple high-profile projects such as &ldquo;Haza Al Masaa&rdquo;, &ldquo;Bel Hagm el A'eli&rdquo;, and &ldquo;The Affair&rdquo;, where she got to act with various renowned actors. When Lina was asked about how did she feel while being around big-name actors, she said, &ldquo;I was observing; it was really fascinating. I used to watch them and how they used to get into character. Obviously, I was starstruck&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Lina played the role of a pregnant teenager in the acclaimed TV series &ldquo;The Affair&rdquo;, which was a change of pace for her, she said, &ldquo;I was really happy when I got the role because it&rsquo;s a role that is completely different from the other roles that I&rsquo;ve played. I love the roles that don&rsquo;t have anything to do with me&rdquo;.</p>
<p>As a rising actress, Lina auditions for many roles, and she opened up about the process of auditioning and how tough it could be, &ldquo;I did my first audition and I got my first role, and so the first time that I get rejected it was pretty harsh on me, but now I&rsquo;ve been doing it for a long time, so I&rsquo;ve learned to just move on&rdquo;.</p>
<p>The 14-year-old star also talked about how she balances school and her career in acting, especially during her latest project &ldquo;Kamel El Adad&rdquo;, she said, &ldquo;I feel like when I&rsquo;m shooting I&rsquo;m better at school because it&rsquo;s more organized for me&rdquo;, she also talked about that the crew of the series was very flexible during the shoot &ldquo;they were very open and flexible with shooting, they would do a lot of exceptions for us because we were seven kids, with seven different school systems&rdquo;.</p>
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<p>She also mentioned that Farida from &ldquo;Kamel El Adad&rdquo; might be her favorite role, saying &ldquo;Farida has a really special place in my heart because I actually studied that role a lot, sometimes I talk about Farida and I just start crying because I actually love that girl&rdquo;, she also talked about her method of switching off from the characters that she feels a strong connection with, saying, &ldquo;I think she&rsquo;s still there but I just lowered the volume, characters never leave&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Lina&rsquo;s first international film &ldquo;The Story&rdquo; was released last February, which marks her first time acting in French, Lina talked about how did it feel like shooting a French horror movie, saying, &ldquo;I was not really scared because I am the horror of the movie, I am the one who scare people. I was a bit stressed because it was my first time acting in French or any other language apart from Arabic&rdquo;.</p>
<p>The rising star also talked about her new upcoming film, saying,&rdquo;There&rsquo;s a new movie called &ldquo;Hassan El-Masry", I don&rsquo;t really know when it will come out with Ahmed Hatem and I&rsquo;m really excited for you guys to see it&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Finally, she gave advice to young people who want to pursue a career in acting saying, &ldquo;Patience. Be patient and work hard, talent is not enough you actually have to work, and every day when you&rsquo;re free try to learn something new&rdquo;.</p>

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