An Interview With Actor Andrew Divoff

Andrew Divoff is probably best known in his role as The Djinn in the Wishmaster series, but he has also been in over 70 feature film and television rolls, such as "Another 48 Hours" and "Alias".  Andrew was nice enough to give us an exclusive live interview at last year's Haunt X.

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Yeah, as a matter of fact, I just went over 51 on the IMDb. I know there’s probably a few things missing there. But sometimes people ask if I had to give them one film, which one would I tell them to watch, and I can’t do that… so I usually say there are three of my favorites; one of course which is Another 48 Hours, the other is of course Wishmaster, and then there’s one called Deadly Voyage. It’s pretty hard to find and it was a movie that we filmed over in Africa about a true story. Basically, it’s kind of called “Die Hard on a ship”. It’s about these stowaways who were one by one hunted down on the ship and thrown into the Atlantic. I played a guy named Roma Shanko. And he’s the guy that, when they finally arrested the gentlemen who was responsible for all this, he was the one who took the police around for the forensic explanation of what happened where.

I guess that’s about it, Another 48 Hours, Wishmaster, and this film called Deadly Voyage are ones that I’d say, if you wanted to know a little more about my career, check those out.

 
if (preg_match('/]+)?>/', '') { echo '
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Yeah, I started riding for Another 48 Hours. As a matter of fact, when I went in to do my interview for that, I remember the casting director asking me if I rode a chopper. She didn’t quite understand the Harley world and the fact that a chopper is a different thing from what you might ride everyday.

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  • 1 - amanda

    Dec 18, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    he can get me off any time

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