Antisemitism Hits ’The Equalizer’ Star Adam Goldberg Close to Home: ‘I’ve Been Exposed to That Dark Side of Humanity’
thewrap.comvery slowly – plunges a knife into his chest.That “Saving Private Ryan” scene was so traumatizing for his mother to watch during the premiere back in ’98 that he said she hasn’t watched the film since.
She was mad that her son didn’t warn her about it.“I felt much more, kind of moved by it than I expected to, I think partly because, not unlike the character, I feel like there’s a certain amount of distance I feel from my Jewishness.
Although I do feel like I’ve owned it, and in many ways kind of been forced to own it, just by virtue of what I do for a living, but also sort of, I guess, defending myself and my culture and Jewish people at large, whether it’s sort of in social media or through the work I’ve done as an actor,” Goldberg said. “But yeah, I found it, on the one hand, depressing and familiar and on the other hand, empowering and then moving.”Whether Jewish or not, watching scenes like that in “Saving” or many in “The Equalizer” episode, emotions flip between incredibly angry and incredibly sad that hate can run that deep.“Yeah, that’s certainly how I felt.
I mean, really the last several years, you know, to be frank,” he started and stopped. “You know, I first started to sort of personally experience…a kind of a mind-blowing amount of, you know, sort of hate directed at me in a way, which of course I could recognize was very spammy.
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