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‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Star Robin Weigert on the Holocaust Drama’s ‘Incredible Journey’ and Meeting Her Character’s Real-Life Granddaughter
'We Were the Lucky Ones' co-star Robin Weigert delves into Episode 6 of the Hulu Holocaust drama.
At the start of Episode 6 of Hulu’s Holocaust drama “We Were the Lucky Ones,” based on Georgia Hunter’s novel, the Polish couple says goodbye to their eldest daughter Mila (Hadas Yaron) and young granddaughter Felice, who make a daring escape from the Radom ghetto by blending in as German citizens thanks, in part, to a coat made by Nechuma that’s deemed so stylish it couldn’t possibly be worn by a Jew. Weigert spoke with Variety to break down the heart-wrenching episode: how she found the opposite of a “death energy” in Nechuma’s story, the way her co-star Ashkenazi showed her tenderness in the factory scenes — and what upcoming moment “went roaring right through me.” And because she had a great attachment to giving these gifts — like the handkerchief, and sewing things into a coat — these important details, there was this item I kept close to my heart that was to remind me of Genec [Henry Lloyd-Hughes], her eldest child.
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