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Why ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Hinged on Joey King’s Casting
"We Were the Lucky Ones" casting director Fiona Weir discusses why Joey King was the key to the show's casting.
Hulu’s “ We Were the Lucky Ones,” based on the book by Georgia Hunter, tells the true story of the Kurcs, a Jewish family who lived in Poland at the onset of World War II. As casting director Fiona Weir read the script for the first episode, showrunner Erica Lipez stressed that despite the grim setting, it ultimately was a celebratory story — and it was important she get the family dynamics right. Weir assembled the cast of children — Genek (Henry Lloyd Hughes), Mila (Hadas Yaron), Jakob (Amit Rahav), Addy (Logan Lerman) and Halina ( Joey King) — and tapped Lior Ashkenazi and Robin Weigert to play the patriarch and matriarch of the Kurc family.
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