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And action!

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It's huge.

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It's mind blowing.

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I have to keep reminding myself[br]that they're not real.

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It's like a historical movie, actually,[br]what we are doing here.

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This is 90 percent of my filming[br]experience, here?

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Is like this.

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Come over here to do a show[br]set in Williamsburg,

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to do it in Berlin, it kind of, [br]you know, plays with my head.

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A series in Yiddish, for me also,[br]personally, I think it's a great thing.

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Going to be dealing with a language[br]that no one understands.

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I mean, we're dealing with costumes[br]and rituals no one understands.

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But the essence of what's happening,[br]that's universally understood.

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This very beautiful and unique story

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that shows kind of like, both worlds.

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I don't think it's a story about[br]the existence of God, or something.

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It's more about...the right to[br]have your voice.

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And people like me never really[br]had that opportunity.

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We never saw ourselves reflected back[br]in the stories being told

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in popular culture.

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So we didn't really know[br]how to create our own stories.

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I think this is the first show, ever,[br]to accurately portray

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the Hasidic community.

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These are real people, and their[br]experiences are very universal,

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and very relatable.

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When the community watches it,[br]and there is somebody like me,

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watches it, and sees, this girl[br]lived exactly like she lives.

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And, she was able to muster[br]the courage to follow her dreams.

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Maybe this girl can, too.

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When I met Ann and Alexa,[br]and I became friends with them,

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I realized, if anybody is ever going to[br]really be able to grasp

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what the story is about,

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and to really execute it in a way

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that is going to have a [br]positive cultural impact,

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it's these women.

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After I met Deborah, [br]i read her book,

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and I thought it was amazing.

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I mean, I read it in one sitting.[br]I couldn't put it down.

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And then, she said:

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"Well, why don't you make my book[br]into a TV show?"

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Anna and I wanted to make a show[br]for a while,

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in which we could work through[br]a lot of the topics

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we discuss a lot, especially[br]about being Jewish in Germany.

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To me, the story is about[br]a young woman, who

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is searching for herself,

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and she is searching for[br]her community in the world.

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Esther is a 19 year old girl.

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She was born and raised in[br]Williamsburg, Brooklyn,

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in the community called Satmar.

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- Don't forget, Esty. [br]He speaks first.

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She grows up in a very [br]religious neighborhood.

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And, frees herself from an[br]unhappy arranged marriage,

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and flees to Berlin.

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Her story is unique, and romantic.

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We just felt it was so different,[br]that somebody would leave

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this very insular community[br]in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York,

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and find their way here,[br]out of choice.

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From a very young age,[br]she always felt very different.

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She's always been told[br]that she is very different,

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because of the fact that[br]she always has questions within her,

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and she has that 'chutzpah,'[br]you can say.

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The Satmar Jews are a[br]Hasidic community,

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originally from the town of[br]Sate Mar, in Hungary.

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They are mostly descendants[br]of Holocaust survivors, and

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started by Holocaust survivors,[br]in New York, after the war.

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This kind of makes them[br]a little bit different

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than a lot of other[br]Hasidic communities,