During today’s HBO TCA panel for The Plot Against America, actress Zoe Kazan gave an emotional response when asked about her grandfather Elia Kazan and his actions during the McCarthy era, wh…
gave an emotional response when asked about her grandfather Elia Kazan and his actions during the McCarthy era, when the two-time Oscar winning filmmaker named former colleagues before the House Un-American Activities Committee.imagines an alternate American history, told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of aviator-hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
Launching into a thorough literate response while holding back tears, Kazan answered, “You’re not bringing up hard times for me, you’re bringing up hard times for our country,” before referencing her grandfather’s cinematic take on the John Steinbeck novel“[In the novel] there’s discussion of a Hebrew in translation in the Cain and Abel story and that word is…’timshel’ Steinbeck’s translate it as ‘Thou mayest’.
She continued, “I have not wanted to weigh in my family’s political history particularly because of the other people it involved in my family who have prized their privacy over a public life. So, I’m not going to into it, but I have thought a lot about how the history of our country effected my family’s history and what it meant for my grandfather as an immigrant to this country to have his American-ess tested and the choice that he made from that.
“Those were things on my mind as I worked on this. It was a profound experience working on this personally, politically and artistically and I think that’s all I have to say about that,” finished Kazan.EP and writer David Simon responded to the thickness in the room, “I’ve been coming to TCA for about a decade and that was best answer to a question. That was so cool. It had linguistic, it had film history.
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