Rebecca Housman is the character whose father owned the painting, and who has the trauma response on the White House tour. She was played by Etyl Leder, and is the mother of Mimi Leder who is a producer/director who worked on ER, and would later direct an episode of The West Wing.
Bradley Whitford mentioned that Yo Yo Ma was very generous and played for the cast between takes, and that Dule Hill did an improvisational tapdance to the cello music.
John Spencer was an incredible actor, and this was one of his finest on-screen moments. Regarding language - European Jews pre WW2 were unlikely to use Hebrew much themselves, so Rebecca Houseman was more likely to be speaking some form of Jewish French, and in her particular distress was likely unintelligible to anyone but those who knew her well. If I was in the US, and had an emotional breakdown and devolved into my most broad Scots, granted the broad mutual intelligibility of Scots and English would likely have them identify me as speaking some form of dialect of English (so close but not quite) but add in an extra layer of language, accent, and distress, and I can easily see them not identifying what she was speaking. And that's under the assumption they were native to the area of France under Vichy rule, they had potentially already fled from central Europe which would mean they were likely Yiddish speakers.
If you could POSSIBLY post these earlier in the day so that your many US fans aren't absolutely ruined for work the next day? (Mwah mwah aka air kisses...)
Rebecca Housman is the character whose father owned the painting, and who has the trauma response on the White House tour. She was played by Etyl Leder, and is the mother of Mimi Leder who is a producer/director who worked on ER, and would later direct an episode of The West Wing.
Oh my goodness what amazing trivia! Thank you!
Bradley Whitford mentioned that Yo Yo Ma was very generous and played for the cast between takes, and that Dule Hill did an improvisational tapdance to the cello music.
Exceptionally good BerNARD impression, gotta say. I'm always swept along in your podcasts here, like, 1hr 23m is over ALREADY??
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for listening!
John Spencer was an incredible actor, and this was one of his finest on-screen moments.
Regarding language - European Jews pre WW2 were unlikely to use Hebrew much themselves, so Rebecca Houseman was more likely to be speaking some form of Jewish French, and in her particular distress was likely unintelligible to anyone but those who knew her well.
If I was in the US, and had an emotional breakdown and devolved into my most broad Scots, granted the broad mutual intelligibility of Scots and English would likely have them identify me as speaking some form of dialect of English (so close but not quite) but add in an extra layer of language, accent, and distress, and I can easily see them not identifying what she was speaking.
And that's under the assumption they were native to the area of France under Vichy rule, they had potentially already fled from central Europe which would mean they were likely Yiddish speakers.
If you could POSSIBLY post these earlier in the day so that your many US fans aren't absolutely ruined for work the next day? (Mwah mwah aka air kisses...)