'Shtisel' star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in 'Kugel' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’

(New York Jewish Week) — “I’m preparing a tea so we can talk with leisure,” Sasson Gabay says over the phone from Israel. The Israeli film and TV star, now 77, wants to get comfortable so he can talk about one of his favorite characters from his 50-year career: Nuhem Shtisel. If that surname sounds familiar, yes — it’s a character from the popular and internationally acclaimed series “Shtisel,” about an Israeli haredi Orthodox family. Now Gabay …

‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay to play haredi Jew in 'Kugel'

As a preview — a taste of the “burnt end” of the kugel, Nuhem might say — Gabay spoke with the New York Jewish Week about filming in Antwerp.

'Shtisel' star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in 'Kugel' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

“I’m preparing a tea so we can talk with leisure,” Sasson Gabay says over the phone from Israel. The Israeli film and TV star, now 77, wants to get comfortable so he can talk about one of his favorite characters from his 50-year career: Nuhem Shtisel. If that surname sounds familiar, yes — it’s a character from the popular and internationally acclaimed series “Shtisel,” about an Israeli haredi Orthodox family. Now Gabay has reprised Nuhem for a …

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'Shtisel’ Star Reprises Role for a Taste of ‘Kugel’

Veteran Israeli actor Sasson Gabay stars in this prequel to the internationally acclaimed Israeli TV series. The post ‘Shtisel’ Star Reprises Role for a Taste of ‘Kugel’ appeared first on JMORE.