Menashe.” He also hired a few Orthodox consultants who made sure the film felt true to life. “I trusted their insight — I knew I needed to lean on them,” said Thomas.
Though he wrote the film in English, he was aided by native Yiddish speakers, who had peppered the script with the traditional Hasidic language by the time the six-week shoot began in fall 2018.
Malky Goldman plays Sarah, a friend of Yakov’s. Just like her character in “The Vigil,” Goldman, 32, left her ultra-Orthodox upbringing in Jerusalem and became an actress, and now resides in Ditmas Park.
She told The Post that Thomas was committed to making the film “as authentic to the horror community as he was … to the Hasidic community.”For Thomas, finding that balance was crucial,.
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