Creator and actress Aleeza Chanowitz unpacks how she approached her story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who moves from Brooklyn to Israel to claim her agency outside her conservative religious community.
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With her arrival, Chanshi draws her fellow immigrants out of their shells — and out of their personal limbos that see their desire for agency clash with gendered Orthodox expectation.
“I know that there will be people who will criticize or be turned off by the provocativeness of the series, but you can’t convince me that it isn’t authentic,” she says. “There is what one tells people, and how you represent yourself to the world, and then there is what really happens behind closed doors.”
It’s a series theme that Chanowitz pulled from her own first sexual encounter in Brooklyn when she was 18, which she said in an artist’s statement “was not completely consensual.”
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