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So we were leafing through this week's new Time magazine, and we ended up getting drawn into its arts lede, "Let's Roll...," about the forthcoming film United 93, about the plane hijacked by terrorists on September 11 and crashed by the hostages into a Pennsylvania field so that it could not be used as yet another improvised missile. It's a good and compelling piece, about what sounds like a good and compelling movie, and it's got some interesting insight into how the film was made — all the victim's families approved, scenes were improvised, and it was cast in an unusual way:

[W]herever possible, Greengrass cast people close to their roles. J.J. Johnson, who plays the captain of Flight 93, is a real United pilot. Trish Gates, who plays head flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw, was a real United flight attendant. Ben Sliney, who as national operations manager for the FAA kept track of the mounting atrocities, appears as himself. Lewis Alsamari, who plays one of the hijackers, spent a year in the Iraqi army.

And having a former Iraqi soldier play one of the terrorists is a great example of this kind of casting. Because, of course, Iraq was intimately involved in the attacks.

Or, at least, that's what the president keeps telling us.

Let's Roll... [Time.com]