When Shohreh Aghdashloo says she had no choice, she literally had to make Friday’s thriller “Deadly Vows,” she isn’t kidding.

When she heard an independent film, inspired by notorious events, was in the works, she was immediately galvanized to action.

“It’s not just another movie to do. It’s a must. A duty,” Aghdashloo, 73, said in a Zoom interview. “If I don’t do it, then who is?”

Aghdashloo, banned in her native Iran, fled to England, then the US in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution. An American citizen, this Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated veteran continues to make bold choices.

“As soon as I signed, I went to work portraying my character, a courageous woman who stands up for her daughter — and for others.”

“Vows” charts how that daughter, Darya (Shiva Negar), an Iranian immigran

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