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Actress in controversial ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film bares anguish

HOLY ROLED: A star of “Innocence of Muslims,” the film at the center of the explosion of anti-US violence, speaks to “Inside Edition” during an interview that aired last night. (
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She was duped.

An actress who starred in the anti-Islam film that has sparked violent anti-US rage across the Middle East said she feels “awful” about her role in the hate flick.

But the woman, who did not identify herself out of fear for her safety, said she was misled about the content of “Innocence of Muslims” — and believed it was just a simple historical drama.

“I feel awful, and I didn’t do anything. But I feel awful,” she told TV’s “Inside Edition” last night in a teary interview.

“I was betrayed. I was Hilary, and the main character was George. I had no idea George turned into somebody else.”

FEDS INTERVIEW FILMMAKER LINKED TO MOVIE

According to a casting call posted in the trade magazine Backstage, filmmakers envisioned the featured role of Hilary as “18 but looks much younger, petite, innocent.”

Lead character George was described as “20-40, a strong leader, romantic tyrant, a killer with no remorse, LEAD.”

George turned out to be the prophet Mohammed — portrayed as a womanizing, child-molesting warmonger.

The actress was paid just $671.66 for the role.

Her remorse echoed similar statements made this week by several other cast and crew members from the obscure, low-budget flick, including actress Cindy Lee Garcia.

Garcia has said she was “dumbfounded” by the explosion of violence in response to the film, because she didn’t know it had been edited so extensively.

“I had no idea what was going on,” she previously told “Inside Edition.”

She has said that the original script didn’t have the prophet character and that lines were changed.

“When I did finally get the trailer sent to me and it was all chopped up and all these other things added in, I was just, like, it was vulgar to me,” she said.

Earlier this week, Garcia said she spoke with the producer.

“He said he wrote the script because he wants the Muslims to quit killing,” she told CNN.

“I had no idea he was doing all this.”

More than 75 cast and crew members released a statement this week saying that they were all misled and that the script underwent “drastic” rewrites.

“The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer,” it read. “We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred.”

A member of the crew with a copy of the original script confirmed there was no mention of Islam or Mohammed in it.

A veteran sound editor yesterday said it was “obvious” the movie was dubbed.

New York-based sound guru Marshall Grupp shared his finding in an e-mail to the International Business Times.

In one scene — in which a character hoists a sword and bellows, “Mohammed is our messenger, and the Koran is our constitution!” — the dialogue doesn’t even remotely synch, he said.