Haaz Sleiman says that meeting the real-life figure he portrays in LittleAmerica was one of the highlights of his career: “I basically made him cry because he said he felt like he was really reliving his story. That really meant a lot”
delivered a journey of heartbreak and hope in the tight half-hour story. When the audience meets him, he is living with his family in Syria but quickly forced out of his home after his father learns he is gay. He finds solace in a new friend and in applying for asylum in the United States. The role was close to Sleiman’s heart as a gay man who grew up in Lebanon, and he will continue to represent the LGBTQ community with his next big role in Marvel’s “Eternals.
It was a very emotional shoot, and I didn’t even realize how emotional it would be until we started rehearsing. What he went through was a lot, and my dad passed away in June before I had to go to Montreal and film. That, in a way, ignited a fire in me because it’s called “The Son,” and obviously a big, big part of the story is the relationship between the father and the son and how that changes when the father finds out his son is gay. There was a parallel with that between me and my dad.
I feel like my dad’s death reopened an old wound, and having that old wound reopened helped me tap into the moments where Rafiq’s father burned his arm on the stovetop, for example. I had never had that happen to me, but it’s my job as an actor to find how to play it.
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