They liked it in Somalia too: when Abdi returned to his birth nation for the first time in more than two decades, he was mobbed by fans who "wanted their photograph with me", he said. "The Somalia I saw was a country that was in the process of being rebuilt. Before "Captain Phillips", Somalia was known to outsiders because of "Black Hawk Down", the 2001 blockbuster telling the story of the 1993 battle in Mogadishu, when American soldiers fought through the capital after two of their helicopters were shot down. Abdi, who won a BAFTA as best supporting actor for his role in the 2013 film "Captain Phillips", dreams some day of a film that shows a different side of Somalia.
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