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kpete

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Mon Sep 17, 2012, 06:44 PM Sep 2012

Actor: Anti-Islam filmmaker 'was playing us along'-details how film was overdubbed

Actress in "Innocence of Muslims" details how film was overdubbed

One of the actors in "Innocence of Muslims" spoke with CNN yesterday in what may be the first mainstream media interview of a cast member from that film. Lily Dionne had just arrived in Hollywood a week earlier when she answered an ad on Craigslist for roles in a movie called "Desert Warrior," a B-movie desert opus about a man named "George" who lived in Egypt 2,000 years ago. She didn't have any lines in the original movie, but after shooting she was called in to dub lines.

"They brought the actors in in post (production) and had them say specific words. Like 'Mohammed,' for example. It was isolated. It wasn't in context," she said. "They'd say 'Say Mohammed,' and they'd (the actors would) say 'Say Mohammed' why?"

When the film was complete, it was no longer a desert adventure about a man named George but rather an anti-Islamic movie about Prophet Mohammed.

"He knew what he was doing. He was playing us all along," Dionne said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/17/world/anti-islam-filmmaker/index.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/17/1132930/-Actress-in-Innocence-of-Muslims-details-how-film-was-overdubbed

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