{"id":118230,"date":"2025-01-04T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118230"},"modified":"2025-01-04T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:25:23","slug":"07-00-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118230","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Actress Noa Cohen Responds to Backlash About Her Playing Jesus\u2019s Mother in Netflix Film \u2018Mary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israeli Actress Noa Cohen Responds to Backlash About Her Playing Jesus\u2019s Mother in Netflix Film \u2018Mary\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Noa Cohen in the Netflix film \u201cMary.\u201d Photo: Christopher Raphael\/Netflix<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli actress Noa Cohen defended the decision to cast her as Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus, in a new Netflix movie and also admitted she was not surprised about the social media uproar regarding the casting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI expected it but you know what, I feel like DJ [Caruso, the director], our producer, and the rest of the team did the best they could to stay as authentic as possible and they just wanted to find the right person and the right cast for the job,\u201d Cohen told the Associated Press<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cAnd I am a Jewish woman, who\u2019s playing a Jewish woman. I grew up in Israel, which is modern day Judea, which is where Mary grew up. So I feel very, very comfortable portraying her and I did that from a place of true sincerity in my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t have to like it, but I like this role very much and I\u2019m very, very proud of it,\u201d she concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Netflix released the official trailer<\/a> for \u201cMary\u201d in November and began streaming the film on Dec. 6. The coming-of-age drama, which additionally stars two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as King Herod, tells the story of the birth of Christ. Besides Cohen, \u201cMary\u201d also stars four other Israeli actors \u2014 Ido Tako, who plays Cohen\u2019s husband Joseph; Ori Pfeffer; Hilla Vidor; and Mili Avital. The film was shot in Morocco and American Pastor Joel Osteen served as an executive producer on the film. Netflix said<\/a> filmmakers \u201cconsulted with a wide range of religious scholars and leaders to capture the story\u2019s historical elements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After the trailer for \u201cMary\u201d premiered, pro-Palestinian activists on social media quickly lambasted<\/a> the filmmakers and called for a boycott of the film because an Israeli Jewish actress was cast to play the lead role. They falsely claimed that Mary and Joseph were Palestinian, and that Jesus was also Palestinian or \u201ca Palestinian Jew.\u201d The Palestinian media outlet Quds Media Network also related the film to the \u201congoing genocide of Christians in Palestine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cohen shared in an interview on Tuesday night that she received multiple death threats while filming the Netflix project in Morocco last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got messages from Moroccan profiles [on social media] who said they know \u2018what hotel you\u2019re staying at,’\u201d she told the Keshet 12 Israeli television program \u201cGood Evening With Guy Pines,\u201d according to The Jerusalem Post<\/em>. \u201cThat didn\u2019t make me feel the safest in the world. And you go to film in what is, after all, a Muslim country, Morocco \u2026 and you need a special visa to get in, and you have to have heavy security guarding you at all times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was scary. Some people began to understand that I was in Morocco and I got messages on Instagram, I got threats, the feeling wasn\u2019t always the most comfortable,\u201d Cohen added. She also said that once the trailer was released, \u201cit was amazing to see how the responses started with \u2018Zionist,\u2019 then went to \u2018Israeli,\u2019 and finally ended up with straight-up \u2018Jew \u2026 you Jewish whore\u2019 \u2014 excuse the language. It was amazing to see how much of it was pure antisemitism and not anything else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Caruso previously praised Cohen\u2019s performance in the film, saying that she \u201cnavigates the complexities of Mary\u2019s journey so extraordinarily that every time I watch the film, she blows me away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe beautifully captures Mary\u2019s innocence, pain, joy, grace, and fierce perseverance in a captivating way,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli Actress Noa Cohen Responds to Backlash About Her Playing Jesus\u2019s Mother in Netflix Film \u2018Mary\u2019 Shiryn Ghermezian Noa Cohen in the Netflix film \u201cMary.\u201d Photo: Christopher Raphael\/Netflix Israeli actress Noa Cohen defended the decision to cast her as Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus, in a new Netflix movie and also admitted she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118245,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118230\/revisions\/118245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}