‘Hamilton’ director Tommy Kail reveals hopes for new Holocaust mini-series ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

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Tommy Kail knew all about the book “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter years before it became a best-selling novel.“I met Georgia in 1999 before I graduated college,” he told the NY Post in an exclusive interview, “and she married one of my best friends.”The New York Times bestselling book is inspired by the unbelievable true story of Hunter’s Jewish family who were living in Radom, Poland at the onset of World War II.Somehow, despite being flung all over the globe and facing unbelievable hardships and danger, they managed to survive.The sweeping epic is now a Hulu mini-series, starring Joey King, Logan Lerman, “The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel” star Marin Hinkle and several Israeli actors including Ido Samuel, Michael Aloni and Amit Rahav.Kail directed two of the episodes and is also an executive producer.He shared that he “supported” Hunter as “she was going through the process of researching it and then deciding to turn it into a book proposal, and when it was finally published even conducted a Barnes & Noble interview on the Upper West Side.“I obviously read the book and it just stayed with me,” he shared. “It was probably about six months later, I just started imagining it….I called her and said, ‘I feel like the opportunity to put this into a different form is something that we might have fun doing, would you be up for trying to do it together and she said yes.'”The show comes at a fraught time with the October 7 attack on Israel, the subsequent war in Gaza and a massive increase in global anti-semitism and even Holocaust denial.The “Hamilton” director is circumspect about discussing it.“The show is about to come out,” he said. “We’re about to see what it means, when it gets out into the world.”He noted that the.