Glenn Close on Learning Farsi for Role on 'Tehran' (Exclusive)

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Glenn Close can now add learning Farsi to her list of accomplishments.

, Wednesday, where she detailed her return to television and the difficulties she faced learning a brand-new language for her role as CIA agent on the second season of the network's espionage thriller.

"It was very challenging. It has a different sentence structure. It's more like German, with the verb at the end. You use your mouth differently. It has certain sounds that we don't have in English," Close explained."But I had a phenomenal coach in Anna Bayat, who worked with me on Zoom three times a week."

Close's character not only makes her mark in the series, she's made a mark on her co-stars, who all gushed to ET about working with the living legend.Fatal Attraction"It was hard to grasp sometimes," Sultan admitted."We were standing there, and I couldn't believe she was in front of me, and I was excited and nervous and happy and so many things at the same time.

For Shaun Toub, who plays Faraz Kamali, getting to work with Close was a dream 35 years in the making.

 

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