LESE \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/p>\nEven now, Asghari \u2014\u00a0who, Page Six previously reported, left the marriage without any spousal support \u2014 makes it clear that he wants the best for Spears.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past is the past, and we get to celebrate it, and we get to always reflect on it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t change the past. The things that happened happened. And like I said, I would never complain about one thing that changed my life for the better or for the worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the years since their divorce, finalized in December 2024, Asghari has moved on. He has been with Irvine, 32, for nearly two years and the pair live together in Los Angeles, along with their dog Porcha.<\/p>\n
Asghari has been troubled watching the conflict taking place in Iran, his homeland. \u201cThe past few months have not made me feel good at all,\u201d he said. Photo Copyright John Chapple \/ instagram: @JohnChapple<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cShe\u2019s amazing,\u201d he said of the real\u00a0estate\u00a0agent. \u201cShe\u2019s super supportive, and we\u2019ve been trying to enjoy the summer and try to go on vacation, and we\u2019re trying to figure out with the schedule where to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Might the two expand their family soon?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m focused on my career now, but what I\u2019ve learned is if I\u2019m going to create a future in Hollywood, I\u2019m going to have to put myself at risk and not my family and the people that are next to me \u2026\u201d Asghari said. \u201cBut, yeah, at some point, who doesn\u2019t want to have a family? I mean, everybody wants to have a family.\u201d<\/p>\n
A former fitness trainer, Asghari has been working to build up a Hollywood career. Last year, he appeared on the NBC hit \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d And now he has a role in \u201cThe Gentleman Thief,\u201d out July 31, playing Victor, part of a team recruited by veteran con man Mason Goddard (Travolta) to steal a $100 million painting from a yacht.<\/p>\n
He says he will always care for Spears \u2014 and knows he will always be asked about the singer. @britneyspears\/ Instagram<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m the macho, the muscle of the operation,\u201d Asghari said with a laugh. \u201cEverybody has a specialty in the team, and I\u2019m the guy that holds the big guns and goes on the big mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really the baddest guy in this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asghari was brought on to the project through his old friend, Randall Emmett, who produced the movie, which also stars Rebecca de Mornay, Lukas Haas and DJ Khaled.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a remarkable full-circle moment for Asghari, who, as a kid growing up in Tehran, watched\u00a0Travolta\u2019s films to help learn English. (His favorite: \u201cThe Taking of Pelham 123,\u201d which came out in 2009, a couple of years after he moved to the US as a 12-year-old.)<\/p>\n
\u201cI never imagined that one day I\u2019d be sharing the screen with him,\u201d he said of Travolta.\u00a0\u201cComing from Iran as a 12-year-old boy, it\u2019s already winning the lottery \u2014\u00a0because the chances of coming to America from a country like that, it\u2019s almost none.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, he marveled, he\u2019s \u201cworking with legends like Mel Gibson and John Travolta and John Cena and Jean Smart and Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman and all these people that I would never had thought.<\/p>\n
Asghari \u2014\u00a0seen at right on a jet ski in \u201cThe Gentleman Thief\u201d \u2014 says he plays the \u201cmuscle\u201d in the movie. Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI came from a country that has gone through so much politically \u2026 and there\u2019s a lot of innocent people in Iran that have a lot of potential.\u00a0And I always say if I was in Iran, I would never have accomplished anything better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since a young Asghari joined his father, a tow-truck driver, in Los Angeles, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve always been working. The second I came to America, I was sweeping the floor of my cousin\u2019s tow truck shop and then as a mechanic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason why I\u2019m in entertainment right now is because my journey just took me this way. Whether I was an athlete or in entertainment or having a business, I would always be the same person \u2026 it doesn\u2019t change me, working with John Travolta or sweeping my cousin\u2019s floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asghari said he learned English from watching John Travolta movies. Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment<\/span><\/p>\nThe actor said he has been working since he came to America \u2014\u00a0when he swept the floors of his cousin\u2019s garage to earn money. Vertical<\/span><\/p>\nEven having been around Spears for as long as he was, he said, \u201cI\u2019m always surprised meeting people that have been in this industry for a long time, especially icons. The more successful someone that has been, the more known, the more iconic, the most charismatic the person is usually the hardest working person and the most humble person.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Travolta, \u201cWe talked about cigars, we talked about Iran, we talked about cars, we talked about airplanes.\u201d<\/p>\n
And how about Scientology, given that Travolta has famously been a member of the religion for decades? Did Travolta try to recruit him?<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely not!\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what that is. So no. No, never. He was an absolute professional, just an amazing person, an amazing dad, amazing family man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asghari will take his short film, \u201cThe Good American,\u201d to the festival circuit this fall. Photo Copyright John Chapple \/ instagram: @JohnChapple<\/span><\/p>\nUp next, Asghari has made a short film called \u201cThe Good American,\u201d which takes place in Iran and America, playing an Iranian refugee and ride-share driver living in Los Angeles. It will enter the festival circuit this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an artist, I feel like it\u2019s our responsibility is to not get involved politically, but to get involved emotionally and to get behind projects that truly mean something to you,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was a Hollywood production showing what really goes down in Iran and how the immigrants react when they come to this country.\u201d <\/p>\n
The conflicts tearing his homeland apart for the past few months \u201chaven\u2019t made me feel good at all,\u201d he continues, \u201cI mean, who likes to watch their country taken hostage by their own government and doing all these horrible things and getting them involved in a war that they can\u2019t defend themselves\u201d It doesn\u2019t feel good at all, but it gives me motivation to be able to continue to be able to represent and to be able to do things for my people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sees himself, he said, as a rose growing up through concrete.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concrete was the country I came from \u2014 and the rose is me growing in unknown circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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