“It’s a cool story,” Amit Rahav says about how he was cast for his breakout part in the “Unorthodox” miniseries on Netflix. “I was so stressed in school that I said maybe we should skip it because I don’t have a lot of time to practice and learn Yiddish for a five-page scene,” the actor reveals about his audition in his exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above). Rahav found it “so relieving to know that” the actress who had been cast as his on-screen wife was Shira Haas, a friend of 10 years. She helped Rahav prepare for his audition and he recalls, “We did our lines together in Yiddish and it felt suddenly very special because we ended the scene and we were shocked: ‘Did we just communicate in Yiddish for the first time in our lives’?” Rahav laughs, “We did not know that a month later,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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