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He’s living out his destiny, err, dreams.
Despite having a “small role,” a London teacher got the opportunity of a lifetime, landing a gig as an actor in the new film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Mohammed Kamel, 46, was “one of the bad guys” who had the honor of being struck with a booze bottle by none other than “Fleabag” actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
And the six-week stint, he revealed, earned him a bigger paycheck than his role as an educator.
“What you make in a month teaching, you do that in a week or five days of acting,” Kamal, who comes from “humble beginnings,” told Metro UK. “It’s four times or five times as good. And, you know, I’m in a small role. I’m not one of the big stars.”
He even got to meet Harrison Ford, 80, the adventure flick’s titular character and Kamal’s self-proclaimed “hero.”
But after roles in Netflix‘s “The Crown,” Apple TV‘s “Liaison” and now “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Kamel came back to London with a spiffy Hollywood reputation, which he said is “overwhelming.”
His proud students insisted on taking selfies with their beloved instructor, and Kamal said his pupils were “excited” to be reunited.
“It’s like London buses, you’re waiting for an acting role to come along since the COVID lockdown, and three come at once,” the aspiring screen actor said.
“It was the best weeks of my professional life, and my life in general.”
While it seemed to be glitz and glam, the school teacher dished that the food wasn’t much better than a grade-school cafeteria.
“It was a bit better than school dinners, but not much,” he said.
But he didn’t have much to complain about — he said he snagged the role when “Indiana Jones” producers scouted him after seeing “The Crown.”
“I hardly had to audition for ‘Indiana Jones,’” he admitted, though when he was hired, Kamal was forced to sign an NDA before even knowing “what the film was.”
In fact, when he showed up to set, he “figured it out” by taking note of the set design, props and overhearing conversations.
“I didn’t want to tell them I didn’t know what it was, you know,” he said.
“I could just tell from the props, from hanging around Pinewood [Studios],” he recalled. “I could overhear the costume department talking about ‘Harrison.’”
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