TIL Barkhad Abdi had never acted before "Captain Phillips", was actually born in Somalia, improvised the line "look at me, I am the captain now", and only made $65k for his Oscar nominated performance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/barkhad-abdis-incredible-journey/



Submitted February 11, 2015 at 12:53AM by manwithuhplan http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vg4z0/til_barkhad_abdi_had_never_acted_before_captain/