Prince of persia movie casts10/31/2023 ![]() So Dastan doesn't have royal blood but it's okay because he's got crazy parkour skills and uses his can-do attitude, wits, and winning smile to take over an entire city while his dumb brothers are trying a direct assault. In Prince of Persia, Persian means British. ![]() I can understand (if not agree with) the decision to cast a name like Ben Kingsley as the antagonist, but the King and his two sons aren't name actors, but they're white anyway (don't let Toby Kebbell's brown-face fool you). The conceit of having the King adopt the clearly non-Persian Gyllenhaal would be a nice way of dodging the racism problem except no one in the Persian royal family is played by an Iranian actor. The King adopts Dastan and fifteen years later he's now a prince of Persia and is played by Jake Gyllenhaal. ![]() ![]() Dastan is a street kid who impressed the King of Persia one day through his mixture of heroics and crazy parkour skills for a ten year old.
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