Logan Lerman is facing the terrors of the Nazis in a much more harrowing and true fashion in We Were the Lucky Ones. After becoming a breakout star with his leading turn in the Percy Jackson movies, Lerman would explore a variety of projects on the big screen, including the acclaimed adaptation of the coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Daren Aronofsky’s Noah. Among these projects, Lerman would square off against the Nazis with David Ayer’s WWII drama Fury and the Prime Video dark comedy thriller Hunters.
In We Were the Lucky Ones, Lerman plays Addy Kurc, one of the children of a Polish Jewish family who becomes separated from them after Germany invades the country due to his music career in France, having received a letter from his mother warning him of the dangers. Across the show’s eight episodes, Addy exhausts every potential avenue in the hopes of getting back to his family, all while dealing with the hostility of the German forces.
In honor of the show’s premiere, Screen Rant interviewed Logan Lerman, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Amit Rahav to discuss We Were the Lucky Ones. Lerman humorously reflected on reuniting with Joey King after similarly playing siblings in Bullet Train, while the group also discussed the complexities of their characters and the joys of building a family dynamic on set.
Screen Rant: I’m very excited to chat with all of you about this show. It is beautiful and timely. Logan, I love that this continues a unique trend of you and Joey King playing siblings with one another, even if it was only briefly in Bullet Train. Did you have any of those kinds of flashbacks when you were going into this show?
Henry and Amit, I will turn to you two next. Your characters and this story are just so impactful, and so powerful to watch. What was it about both of your characters and the story that intrigued you both to be a part of this?
Logan, Noah recently started trending on Netflix, and it’s been a few years since it came out. What is it like for you hearing that and looking back on that experience?
Based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling novel, the television adaptation of “We Were the Lucky Ones” is a limited series inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of WWII. The series follows them across continents as they do everything in their power to survive, and to reunite. “We Were the Lucky Ones” demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. The series is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.
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We Were the Lucky Ones begins streaming on Hulu on March 28.
Source: Screen Rant Plus