Actors can go to any extent to look authentic in their characters. We know many stars in the world who have achieved a status in the field of acting due to their method acting approach and by the way they bring everything to life.
Haris Waheed is a NAPA trained actor who has experience working on stage too. He has been a part of drama industry for quite some years now and he makes every character extremely convincing the way he visualizes and then performs it. His stint in Sammi is also memorable and he did give his best then too.
In Sammi, Haris’s character goes into jail. So, when the team went to a real life jail for the shoot, some equipment did not arrive on time. Haris took this opportunity and went into a real jail cell with prisoners in there to experience how it is. He said that he did it for his own knowledge. Haris talked to the incarcerated people there and made a vision of how it feels to be in a jail.
Listen to Haris’s story and experience of getting inside a real jail and how it subsequently helped his performance:
