Alexander Siddig Tells Us Everything About Kingdom of Heaven

Alexander Siddig Tells Us Everything About Kingdom of Heaven

Alexander Siddig answered all our questions about ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ the rare Hollywood blockbuster to humanize Muslims so soon after 9/11.

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“What is Jerusalem worth?” asks Balian of Ibelin (Orlando Bloom) towards the end of Ridley Scott’s 2005 crusader epic Kingdom of Heaven. “Nothing,” replies Saladin (Ghassan Massoud), Sultan of the Muslim forces. He then smiles before adding “Everything!” Distilling thousands of years of bloodshed into just two lines of dialogue Scott and screenwriter William Monahan mine pathos and relevance from an exceptionally violent and intolerant period of…