{"id":86971,"date":"2021-08-02T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=86971"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T06:10:20","slug":"25-00-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=86971","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Actress Shira Haas Speaks About Portraying Terminally Ill Teen in \u2018Asia\u2019 and New Golda Meir TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israeli Actress Shira Haas Speaks About Portraying Terminally Ill Teen in \u2018Asia\u2019 and New Golda Meir TV Series<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAsia\u201d director Ruth Pribar, left, and actress Shira Haas. Photo: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli actress Shira Haas discussed in two recent interviews the emotional toll of playing a terminally ill character in the film \u201cAsia\u201d and her upcoming collaboration with legendary singer Barbara Streisand on a TV series about former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew-language film \u201cAsia,\u201d which premiered in the US on June 11, centers on the relationship of a single mother named Asia (Alena Yiv), a nurse at a Jerusalem hospital, and her 17-year-old daughter Vika (Haas), whose suffers from Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease and finds her health rapidly deteriorating. The film earned Haas Israel\u2019s Ophir Award for best supporting actress and when it premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival it won three awards, including the best actress award for Haas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI basically couldn\u2019t stop crying after reading it for the first time,\u201d Haas told ET Canada<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> on Sunday about the film\u2019s script. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not an easy crier in real life, so it says a lot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film\u2019s director, Ruth Pribar, explained that the project was inspired by her older sister, who died 15 years ago, and how the tragedy \u201cshaped my life, and the way I see life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really [a story about] a mother and daughter that in a way are separating from one other, slowly but surely,\u201d Pribar said, describing the movie\u2019s storyline. Haas added, \u201cIt\u2019s a story about some tough matters and subjects and yes, there\u2019s illness and the subject of death as well. But for me it\u2019s really about life, relationships and love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To prepare for her role as Vika, Haas told The Wrap<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Friday that she studied people who faced terminal illness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI did a lot of physical research,\u201d she continued. \u201cAt first, I met with a doctor and I met with a young girl, a very brave patient with the same disease as Vika, so I could know what it felt like. [And] I reacquainted myself with the five stages of grief [denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance]. This was the closest way to learn how to experience death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Haas will next star as Meir, Israel\u2019s first and only female prime minister, in an American TV series executive produced by Streisand and based on the book by Francine Klagsbrun, \u201cLioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s an amazing, difficult, interesting, complex and way ahead of her time kind of woman,\u201d Haas told ET Canada<\/em> about Israel\u2019s legendary leader. \u201cAnd I\u2019m very exciting and honored that Barbara Streisand is part of it, which is a dream basically. We had a phone call and it was probably the most exciting phone call I\u2019ve had. It was very very exciting to talk to her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Haas also updated fans about the progress of the show, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s in the making. It\u2019s being written, probably as we speak, so it will take time until we start filming it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli Actress Shira Haas Speaks About Portraying Terminally Ill Teen in \u2018Asia\u2019 and New Golda Meir TV Series Shiryn Ghermezian \u201cAsia\u201d director Ruth Pribar, left, and actress Shira Haas. Photo: Screenshot. Israeli actress Shira Haas discussed in two recent interviews the emotional toll of playing a terminally ill character in the film \u201cAsia\u201d and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971"}],"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=86971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87209,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions\/87209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}