Who said film festivals were boring? This gives new meaning to the term “Red Carpet Treatment”. At a film festival in Qatar this morning Hollywood legend Omar Sharif lost his cool and violently slapped a woman right on the red carpet.
Omar Sharif was attending the Doha Tribeca Film Festival for a screening of one of his movies when a woman walked up to the 79-year-old actor and apparently angered him somehow.
Sharif — who was nominated for an Oscar in 1962 for his role in “Lawrence of Arabia” — lashed out in Arabic … and then slapped at the woman.
All seemed to have been forgiven because moments later, the woman actually smiled and posed for a photo with Sharif like nothing ever happened.
A reporter at the scene tweeted:
“Omar Sharif just hit a woman. Very stupidly, in front of a camera.”
Omar Sharif is no stranger to physical violence. Back in 2003, Sharif attacked a cop in a Paris casino and in 2007, he plead no contest to misdemeanor battery for beating up a Beverly Hills parking attendant.
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