Joey King on Fighting Antisemitism at 12 Years Old and Having Trauma Counselors on the Set of Holocaust Series ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Joey King has nothing against method acting – it’s just not for her. Especially for projects like her latest, the Holocaust series “We Were the Lucky Ones.” Based on Georgia Hunter’s best-selling novel of her family’s fight to survive the Holocaust, Logan Lerman stars as Hunter’s grandfather Addy alongside King as his younger sister Halina.

Rounding out the cast are Sam Woolf, Robin Weigart, Lior Ashkenazi, Hadas Yaron, Amit Rahav and Eva Feiler. “I think anyone who is a method actor is truly so brave and amazing, but I’m personally not a method actor,” King tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “And when shooting a show like this, I just don’t know how I could be because having those moments of release in between setups and in between takes with your friends [is needed].” “Sometimes you need that release at the snack table with each other…because it got really dark,” she continues. “It would get so sad and there would be times where you just didn’t know when it was going to hit you.

Everyone had different moments where we’re all sitting there having a nice time together, just filming a scene and then someone’s hyperventilating and crying because it’s a wave that washes over you.” Hulu also made trauma therapists available for cast and crew on set. “They would come and check on each of us a lot, which I thought was so great,” King says.

But at the end of the day, it was the cast leaning on each other that King feels made the hardest days bearable. King’s movie nights with co-stars were particularly helpful: “We’d watch ‘Finding Nemo’ because we just needed to.” King, 24, says she first experienced antisemitism when she joined Instagram at age 12..