Ilana Glazer Says ‘Broad City’s Axed Episode In Israel Would Have Featured Zoë Kravitz As Jesus

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Although Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson‘s Broad City characters took a flight to Israel, they never quite made the birthright trip they imagined.

Amid the country’s ongoing conflict with Palestine, Glazer recalled that she and Jacobson “were actually going to film in Israel” before deciding to “pull the plug” at the last minute, detailing what would have happened in the hour-long Season 3 finale of their Comedy Central series. “There was violence happening between Israelis and Palestinians,” she explained to The Daily Beast. “And I don’t think either one of us had taken our journey into understanding the situation there to the degree that we do now, but it was just a bad vibe.

And we were promised all of this army protection, you can film and there will be soldiers there with guns, and we were like, wait, what are we doing?

We have to fully pull the plug. This is not appealing and that’s not what safety sounds like. And yeah, we pulled it.” Glazer added, “It just got really scary at the last minute.