Mona Zaki's Film “The Black Box” Shooting Postponed

Director Mahmoud Kamel, the director of Egyptian actress Mona Zaki's new action-thriller film “Al sandouk al Aswad” (The Black Box) has postponed shooting the first scenes of the film due to his preoccupation with another film, "Girls Secondary".

The Black Box is written by Ahmed and Haitham El Dahan and directed by Mahmoud Kamel.

Actors Mustafa Khater and Mohamed Faraghave recently joined the cast of the film.

In an interview with “MBC Trending” program, the film director talked about Zaki’s role in the film, saying: ” It is a new role for her and is a very big challenge, Mona is a very professional actress, and the cast is ready to experience the film’s tough stuns”.

Zaki is currently shooting her film “El-Ankaboot” (The Spider) next week co-starring Ahmed El Sakka, which is scheduled to be released in theaters in 2020.

It is scheduled for the Egyptian actress to participate in Ramadan 2020 drama marathon with TV series “Isis”, which will premiere during the holy month of Ramadan.

It is written by screenwriter Mariam Naoom, directed by Mohamed Yassin, and produced by synergy Production Company.

This is not the first cooperation between Zaki and Yassin; he directed her 2016 TV series “Afrah el kobba”.

Zaki was born in Cairo in 1976.  She graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.

The actress career started by chance at the age of 16, as Egyptian actor-director Mohamed Sobhi was searching for new faces, she applied in the hopes of getting a chance to meet Sobhi.

She was cast by Sobhi and had her first acting role in his play “Bel Araby El Faseeh”.

She later co-starred in a number of popular TV series such as “El A’elah”, “Khalti Safiya wel Deir”, “Nisf Rabi’ El Akhar”, “Ahalina”, “Ded El Tayyar” and “El Daw’ El Sharid”.

She also co-starred in several plays, among which were “Le’b Eyal”, “Ya Messafer Wahdak”, “Afrouto”, and “Keda OK”.

In 2001, Zaki received an award from Gihan El Sadat, the wife of former president Anwar El Sadat, for portraying her in masterpiece film “Ayam El Sadat” (Days of El Sadat).

A year later, she married prominent Egyptian actor Ahmed Helmy and gave birth to three children Lily, Selim, and Younes.