its US release happened in November, and the actor is ecstatic with the response While it was released in India the past week. Elnaaz Norouzi recently made a stride in her Hollywood career as she starred alongside Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi in the actioner The Fix. “It feels very special.
It isn’t something I expected but it happened and there’s nothing better than recognition for your work,” she says.
Norouzi made her Hollywood debut with the 2023 release Kandahar, alongside actor Gerard Butler. The actor, who comes from an Iranian-German descent and has been part of Hindi films like Tehran and Mastii 4 (both 2025), adds that Indian cinema often stereotypes foreign-looking actors in their films and give them superficial characters to play. The West is still closer to what I am used to when I grew up in Germany. India was much harder for me to navigate, and it took me a lot of time to understand it. “There is not that much diversity in Indian films or series. The stories here are mostly about India, and if they go international, it’s mostly about England or Pakistan. In the West, so many more countries come in to make a movie.
Ask her whether navigating Bollywood has been tougher or Hollywood, and she says, “Indian industry has been more challenging. So, naturally, there is more diversity in the West than Indian cinema,” she says.
