Shira Haas is filming the third season of Shtisel according to COVID-19 protocols in Jerusalem. 'You’re seeing all the people you know, but you can’t hug them. There aren’t a lot of people on set, and everyone is very careful'
,” she co-starred in the Israeli drama “Shtisel,” about a sprawling Orthodox family in Jerusalem. As Ruchami Weiss, the oldest daughter in a family of six kids, Haas plays the character as steadfast and kind, with an undercurrent of anger that can ripen into rebelliousness. In December 2018, Netflix started streaming the two seasons of “Shtisel” that ran on Israeli television in 2013 and 2015-16, making the show an international phenomenon.
In conversation, Haas is thoughtful, but quick. She wants to write and direct, and speaks admiringly about women she’s worked with, among them “Zookeeper’s” Jessica Chastain and Natalie Portman . For now, there’s “Broken Mirrors,” the 2019 film for which she was nominated for an Israeli Academy Award for best actress, which comes to VOD in the U.S. on Sept. 22.
Winger, Karolinski and Schrader came to Tel Aviv to see Haas, and to audition actors for other roles as well. “Here comes Shira, who’s just a superstar,” Winger remembers. “We only showed one actress to Netflix for the part of Esty.” When executives asked if they could see other actors, the team offered none. “We’re like, ‘No, there are no backup choices! She’s the one,’” Winger says.
For Haas, her work on the role was just starting. She moved to Berlin in March 2019 to begin her transformation into Esty, which included learning how to play the piano, singing lessons, trying on wigs and rehearsing.
This past spring should have been a series of public coronations for Haas, with the worldwide debut of “Unorthodox,” followed by the premiere of her movie “Asia” at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was supposed to travel to Berlin and Lille, France, to fete “Unorthodox,” then to New York for Tribeca and then on to Los Angeles for meetings — none of which happened. Haas even won the award for best actress in an international narrative feature for “Asia” at Tribeca — virtually.
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