Waleed Zuaiter on Playing Saddam Hussein in High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam

Waleed Zuaiter joins The TV Cave to discuss portraying Saddam Hussein in TNT’s High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam . He opens up about his personal connection to the story, growing up in Kuwait during Iraq’s invasion, and the fear and trauma the role brought back.

Zuaiter also talks about finding the humanity in Saddam without excusing his actions, the father-son dynamic he and Joel Kinnaman saw between Saddam and John Nixon, and the small character details that helped shape those intense interrogation scenes. With the finale approaching, he also reflects on revisiting and reshooting key moments and discovering new layers in the performance.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam airs on TNT.