Shira Haas and Lizzy Caplan to Star in New Nazi Hunter Show
By Aaron Gold
New Netflix Show. Shira Haas (Shtisel, Unorthodox, Captain America: Brave New World) and Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Now You See Me, Fleishman is in Trouble) are starring in a new Netflix show called The Boys From Brazil, a remake of the 1978 film starring Gregory Peck all based on the book of the same name by Ira Levin.
The Boys From Brazil follows Yakov Lieberman, played by Jeremy Strong (Succession, The Big Short), who is a Holocaust survivor and a Nazi hunter as he hunts down Nazi fugitives. Strong, whose father is Jewish, will also be playing Mark Zuckerberg in the upcoming Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, the second installment of The Social Network. He has played a number of Jewish characters. Strong recently played Roy Cohn, President Donald Trump’s infamous mentor in the 1970s in The Apprentice, Irving Graff in Armageddon Time and Jerry Rubin in The Trial of the Chicago 7.
By Aaron Gold. Aaron Gold is a writer and the founder of The Hasmonean.
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