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 Other CastWhen Tony is captured and held captive in a dark and cavernous cave in the mountains, he encounters another prisoner of war named Yinsen, played by the versatile Shaun Toub. A medical doctor, Yinsen, keeps Tony alive long enough for him to build an RT device that prevents the shrapnel from piercing his heart.
“Yinsen is a worldly man who speaks many different languages,” says Toub. “Although he originally comes from a very small town, he has traveled the world. When Tony Stark is brought into the cave, Yinsen operates on Tony and removes as much of the shrapnel as possible. The irony is that the shrapnel that remains in his chest is from a bomb that Stark Industries built.”
While Tony is secretly building a suit of armor in the cave, Yinsen must defuse the increasingly hostile Raza, the ruthless leader of the insurgents. Played by Faran Tahir, Raza has captured Tony and is forcing him to build a Jericho missile, Stark Industries' newest and most powerful weapon.
Tahir, an avid Iron Man comic reader, explains his character's motives for capturing a high value target like Tony Stark. “Raza is part of a secret alliance and is given the assignment to abduct and kill Tony Stark,” he says. “Tony's almost dead after the attack, but Raza makes a deliberate choice to have him revived because he is a valuable asset and he wants to get an incredible weapon out of him. If Raza can possess this weapon, his caché goes up so much that he can rule the entire region.”
Playing the role of Christine Everhart, a beautiful young investigative reporter, is Leslie Bibb. “Tony Stark is interviewed by a lot of people, but there's something about Christine that strikes a nerve in him,” says Bibb. “In the script, she becomes his moral conscience and lets him know `This is what you're doing and these are the results of what your company produces.' In her mind she sees Tony as a war profiteer, but at the same time she is completely smitten by his charm and charisma and can't resist spending the night with him at his ocean-side mansion.”
Rounding out the talented cast of “Iron Man” is Sayed Badreya as Raza's lead henchman Abu Bakar, Clark Gregg as government agent Coulson, Bill Smitrovich as Air Force General Gabriel and Jon Favreau as Tony Stark's chauffeur Happy Hogan.
With casting completed, the filmmakers reflected upon the extremely talented cast they had assembled for “Iron Man.”
“I think this is the best cast that we have ever assembled for a Marvel film,” claims producer Feige. “Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges are all Academy Award nominees or winners. This is an ensemble that you only dream about, but we were able to land all four of these extremely talented actors, which is really something special and Marvel couldn't be happier.”
“With `Iron Man,' I really wanted to offer the human side of the story that is more in line with my sensibilities as a filmmaker,” says Favreau. “I would be thrilled to have our cast in a drama or a comedy, but to be able to have them in a bigger-than-life superhero film really offers the possibility to exceed people's expectations. Superhero films have been very successful recently, but I really wanted to push the envelope and go for something a little bit more interesting, and having a cast like we do really affords me the opportunity to achieve that.”
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