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March 10, 2004 — Reuters reports that filming for director Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter, which stars Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, has begun at the UN, a place where a Hollywood production has never set foot in.
Filming in New York is not unusual. But doing it at U.N. headquarters is unique because no one could remember the world body ever giving Hollywood permission. It rejected Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 movie, "North by Northwest," starring Cary Grant, which opened with the assassination of a diplomat in a U.N. lounge, scenes not considered conducive to world peace.
Pollack, too, was first turned down by the U.N. legal department, diplomats said. But Shashi Tharoor, head of U.N. public information, who read the script, convinced Secretary-General Kofi Annan and others the film would be seen by millions the organization could never reach itself.
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