"I know I wasn't ready. You know, when I worked with Kevin [Macdonald] on The Eagle, I could barely speak English. So it would have been hard to work in America or England before, but also the parts that I got offered are not convincing, and I had to turn them down," Rahim told Slash Film. Eventually, however, he would go on to star in 2018's The Looming Tower and Mary Magdalene. In The Looming Tower, he worked with a coach for four hours a day to nail down an American accent.