Amir El-Masry on Dislocating Finger While Playing Boxer Prince Naseem in ‘Giant’ With Pierce Brosnan Who Told Him: ‘F— the Film. Worry About Your Health’

British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry, who plays iconic British-Yemeni featherweight “Prince” Naseem Hamed in the biopic “Giant” – which opens Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival – is on a roll with a trio of movies launching in rapid succession, all of which bridge his multi-cultural upbringing in very different ways.

After appearing in Julia Jackman’s ensemble fairy tale “100 Nights of Hero,” which draws from The Thousand and One Nights and debuted at the Venice Film Festival, El Masry is appearing as the lead in both “Giant,” which is directed by Rowan Athale, and in Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky’s “The Stories,” where he plays a pianist from Cairo who becomes pen pals with an Austrian girl whom he then marries.

Born in Cairo and raised in London, Amir El Masry broke out internationally in 2016 with a small standout role as a hotel chef opposite Tom Hiddleston in Susanne Bier…