TIL that Jerry Haleva, who played Saddam Hussein in Gutterballs, was a political lobbyist who ended up portraying Saddam because of a joke.

Posted by MilaVaneela@reddit | lebowski | View on Reddit | 26 comments

Also, TBL was the third moviehe portrayed Saddam in, the first and second being Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deux.

From his Wikipedia entry: “In 1989, a colleague of Haleva distributed a photo of the then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein among his co-workers with the text "Now we know what Haleva does on his weekends".

It’s like Lenin said, man, you look for the guy who resembles the dictator and uh, uh, y’know-