'Sometimes it’s outright horrifying, and then it’s tongue-in-cheek and deep with tragic emotion,' the Oscar nominee says of HuntersTV. 'I love that in a story.”
. The actor plays a wealthy Holocaust survivor who leads a covert gang of assassins, tracking and killing hundreds of former high-ranking Nazi officials that are living in secret in 1970s New York—and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich.
“This was one of the craziest and most original stories I have read in a long time,” said Pacino at the show’s premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. “It’s inspired by true life events that happened in this country. It’s scary stuff… You really can’t believe it. What appealed to me is the eccentric story. Sometimes it’s outright horrifying, and then it’s tongue-in-cheek and deep with tragic emotion. I love that in a story.
The series weaves historical facts—the real-life U.S. government initiative Operation Paperclip, which brought more than 1,000 Nazi scientists to America after the end of World War II; references to real-life Nazi hunters like Simon Wiesenthal—with fantasy for a bold TV thriller. Series creatorcame up with the show’s concept five years ago, and was primarily inspired by the stories his grandmother told him as a young boy.
“My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, and she would tell me stories about the war and what she experienced,” said Weil on the arrivals carpet. “I want to continue her story, and what I really want to accomplish with the show is to keep the memory. The greatest gift to the Jewish people is the capacity to remember. Our memory is such a vital weapon. It ensures things like the Holocaust never happens again. Memory is such an important theme and a motif for the show.
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