The interval drama collection, tailored from Georgia Hunter’s best-selling novel We Had been the Fortunate Ones, arrives March 28 on Hulu.

Based mostly on the true story of Hunter’s circle of relatives, the collection follows a household of Polish Jews torn aside by the Holocaust. Separated throughout nations — even continents — they are going to struggle to search out their means again to 1 one other. The eight-episode restricted collection incorporates a sprawling solid, together with acquainted faces like Joey King and Logan Lerman.

What’s We Had been the Fortunate Ones about?

Lior Ashkenazi and Robin Weigert in “We Had been the Fortunate Ones.”
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The guts of We Had been the Fortunate Ones are the Kurcs, a Jewish household dwelling in Radom, Poland. Because the collection opens, they’re well-off and tight-knit. But Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the start of World Struggle II tear them away from each other, forcing them to endure grave horrors and hardships all through the whole thing of the conflict and the Holocaust.

Lerman’s character Addy, a composer, is predicated on Hunter’s personal grandfather. She did not find out about his Holocaust story till a yr after he died, when she was 15 years previous, Hunter advised members of the Tv Critics Affiliation (TCA) throughout a panel. From there, she knew she needed to inform his story — and the story of their prolonged household throughout that point.

Hunter’s household story resonated with stars of the We Had been the Fortunate Ones as properly. Lerman advised TCA members about how Addy’s journey from nation to nation, ultimately winding up in South America, mirrored his circle of relatives’s forcible displacement from Europe. Within the case of Lerman’s household, they ultimately settled in China.

“I have not seen this angle on [the Holocaust],” Lerman mentioned of the present’s ensemble storytelling. He added: “You possibly can take one thing away from each individual’s storyline.”

Joey King and Logan Lerman lead We Had been the Fortunate Ones’ massive solid.

Amit Rahav as Jakob in “We Had been the Fortunate Ones.”
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Joey King (The Act, Bullet Prepare) and Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Hunters) star as siblings Halina and Addy Kurc in We Had been the Fortunate Ones. Becoming a member of them within the Kurc household are Hadas Yaron (Felix and Meira), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Archie), Amit Rahav (Unorthodox), Sam Woolf (The Witcher), Michael Aloni (Out within the Darkish), Moran Rosenblatt (Hit & Run), Eva Feiler (The Crown), Lior Ashkenazi (Golda), and Robin Weigert (Deadwood). 

“We have been seeking to create a household,” showrunner Erica Lipez mentioned of the casting course of. “We simply actually wished to search out individuals who have been operating in direction of the undertaking and who felt compelled to do it.”

Lipez (Julia, The Morning Present) additionally serves as govt producer on We Had been the Fortunate Ones, together with Thomas Kail (Fosse/Verdon) and Jennifer Todd (Memento). Episodes are directed by Kail, Neasa Hardiman (The Energy), and Amit Gupta (His Darkish Supplies).

We Had been the Fortunate Ones premieres March 28 on Hulu.