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Jonah Hauer-King in Tattooist of Auschwitz: ‘If I wasn’t getting upset, I wouldn’t be doing my job’

JL;DR SUMMARY Jonah Hauer-King discusses his intense preparation for the role of Lale Sokolov in the series "The Tattooist of Auschwitz," emphasizing the responsibility he felt to do justice to the story of a Jewish prisoner who tattooed ID numbers on fellow inmates. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish History  Auschwitz  Holocaust  Acting  The Tattooist Of Auschwitz  Jonah Hauer King  Tv Series  Lale Sokolov  Gita Sokolov  Naomi Gryn 

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