well you're going to love our next
interview of all the people that we
managed to track down in the hatch is a
hollywood movie actor omar reagan now a
muslim thanks so much for joining us
you've acted in the movie rush hour 2 as
a double for chris tucker
tell me about how you went from
hollywood to hajj that's an amazing
journey in itself yeah um when you put
it like that it kind of
i don't know it's the first thing that
comes to my mind like wow how did i get
here
i i can say i'm grateful i know my
mother she converted to islam
when i was young but um i grew up making
a lot of mistakes a lot of mistakes
won't get into that
please don't tell nobody don't tell
nobody um but then uh i started uh
working and uh
just i was always racially a good person
and then i i joined up with this uh
group called the canadian dow
association which i end up being the
program developer for it and we started
doing little functions like stop the
violence and things in canada and then
things in the in the us and then they
said hey we sending you the hatch and i
was like what
yeah i didn't feel like i was ready so i
started trying to study and
i came last year all right now as i
mentioned you've doubled for chris
tucker you know what i'm going to ask
you i got to ask you what would chris
tucker say if he was on hatch
he'd probably say something like um
hey it's a lot of people and they
pushing me
it's all full of man all for allah one
god
numerous things and you know this man
can i do this
i got a new life
how did do hollywood you're still
working in hollywood so oh yeah yeah is
it it's quite an interesting balancing
act do hollywood and hatch really go
together you maintain those two roles
hollywood and
yeah that's that's controversy right
there that is controversy it's like all
right well you hear it is that bernie
mac now
hollywood
now you know it's conflicting
but it works um because hollywood
teaches you kind of like
uh put on this be a fake person be
another person and hodge teaches you to
really be yourself and strip you of
everything that you thought was so
important and everything that you really
fight for it's about me and what i need
and
hodge me you know you sleep on the
ground you know you wear nothing as you
can see
and we don't want to really show you
wearing nothing he is by the way that is
true that is true but you stripped of
all those worldly possessions you know
and you you kind of everybody is on the
same level no matter how much money you
have
we're the same
yeah so i can take that back to the u.s
with me you know be a nice person be a
good person what islam really teaches is
have good character good manners tell me
does it hurt your hollywood profile your
hollywood career that you have such a
high profile as a muslim as you
mentioned you're in hajj you're talking
to us on tv yeah i'm part of the
canadian down association
i don't know that's a good question
i'm gonna find out when i go back home
if you need a job i'll talk to my father
yeah do that because you asked they'll
be like he was on al jazeera
like they love us
it's been good talking to you arnold
reagan
i'm going to let you get back to the the
other rush hour this is more like rush
hour 10. it took us about three hours
and 15 minutes i guess you're out here i
don't even think about how long it's
going to take to get you back what is
the opposite of rush hour slow motion
over here you can't go nowhere it's just
too many people there in mountains and
everything it's beautiful though it is
beautiful
mama reagan you have yourself a
beautiful hydrogen and safe trip huh all
right nice talking to you thank you
we'll be uh continuing the coverage from
the heart of the hajj in the days to
come but for now i'm going to hand you
back to imran in the studio