The Mauritanian star Tahar Rahim on The Serpent, forgiveness and 70s trousers
t is a relief to see Tahar Rahim wanting like himself all over again. The very last time he was on my screen, the actor was in BBC drama The Serpent participating in Charles Sobraj, the French fraudster who focused Western travelers travelling via Southeast Asia in the 1970s. He was muscly, menacing and wore copious amounts of bogus tan. Nowadays, Rahim’s orange glow is gone, and he is dressed down in a navy zip-up hoodie, which can make him glance like a teen. “Do you intellect if I smoke my rollie?” he asks, introducing “it is morning” by