Inside Defiance with Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber's researched the Holocaust for past films, including Everything is Illuminated which he wrote and directed, and was drawn to Defiance - another film depicting those tragic events - because it told a story he found important and compelling. Based on a true story, Defiance shines the spotlight on three brothers – Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski – who took heroic measures in order to keep thousands of their fellow Jewish citizens safe from the Nazis during World War II. "I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York and I’m half-Jewish, and anything that has resonance for me about my family history, because I don’t know much about it, I’m drawn to," explained Schreiber at the film's Los Angeles press event. "That’s part of why I think I choose projects like this. Less because I’m right for them, but because I want to know if I’m right for them." Read More...
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