In latest days, activists have circulated a submit on social media indicating that the late Egyptian artist Mohsen Tawfiq had defined in her final tv interview that she was the primary candidate to entered the character of the worldwide artist Dalida, within the movie “The Sixth Day” directed by the late Youssef Chahine.
Tawfiq, who died in 2019, stated: She expressed her anger at this example, regardless that she had began filming her first scenes, and went right into a breakdown whereas watching it for the primary time, affirming that she would have completed the function higher than Dalida, for the reason that latter didn’t communicate. the Arabic language correctly, because of her immigration exterior of Egypt.
The good director Yousry Nasrallah, considered one of Youssef Chahine’s college students, needed to make clear the reality of this data. He stated in a submit on Fb that Mohsena Tawfiq was nominated to star within the movie, however she didn’t begin filming with him. that she was she was busy filming a sequence exterior Egypt, and she or he requested them on the time to cancel the movie, however Shaheen refused.
He additionally revealed that he nominated the 2 stars Faten Hamama and Souad Hosni for a similar character, however they refused, so he additionally provided the artist Nabila Obaid, and she or he refused to carry out due to her lack of settlement with the late director relating to the small print of the make-up with which she would seem.
Nasrallah defined in his submit that Dalida was not chosen based mostly on the non-public whims of the late director Youssef Chahine, as reported, however he turned to her after rejecting Egyptian stars he didn’t get anybody else earlier than.
It ought to be famous that “The Sixth Day” is among the most vital Egyptian movies that mentioned the disaster within the unfold of cholera, which claimed the lives of numerous Egyptians His story revolves round a grandmother (Dalida) who discovers that her grandson has this illness, so she tries to cover the information from the folks of her village in order that it isn’t despatched publicly to the sanatorium of a useless physique.
A lot of artists participated within the starring function of the movie, together with: Mohsen Mohieddin, Hamdi Ahmed, Salah Al-Saadani, Shweikar, Muhammad Mounir, Abla Kamel, and the Iraqi artist Youssef Al-Ani suicide in 1987.
