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James Gray on Casting Non-Jewish Actors as Jewish Characters in ‘Armageddon Time’: “I Reserve the Right”


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/armageddon-time-james-gray-casting-anthony-hopkins-jewish-character-1235251705/

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The author of the article didn't see the movie, or didn't pay attention.

"That criticism has largely arisen around Oscar-winner Hopkins, who plays the grandfather of the film’s central character, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine who escaped the Holocaust. "

The character played by Anthony Hopkins didn't escape the Holocaust. He was born in the USA, the child of Jewish immigrants who fled Ukraine because of pogroms, decades before the Holocaust.

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