{"id":33964,"date":"2015-07-10T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=33964"},"modified":"2017-02-13T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:17:52","slug":"king-sauls-daughter-recast-in-of-kings-and-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/07\/king-sauls-daughter-recast-in-of-kings-and-prophets.html","title":{"rendered":"King Saul’s daughter recast in Of Kings and Prophets<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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New script<\/a>, new director, new Philistine king<\/a>. Now Of Kings and Prophets<\/a><\/i> has a new actress playing King Saul\u2019s elder daughter Merav (also known as Merab).<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports that Jeanine Mason, an American actress and a former contestant on So You Think You Can Dance<\/i>, will play Merav, who was played by South African actress Alex McGregor in the original pilot (and in the trailer<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Merav is the daughter of King Saul (played by Ray Winstone) and his wife Ahinoam (Simone Kessell), and she is also the sister of Michal (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), Jonathan (Haaz Sleiman) and Ish-Bosheth (James Floyd).<\/p>\n

The biblical Merav also had brothers named Abinadab and Malki-Shua, but I do not know if those characters will be featured in this series.<\/p>\n

In the Bible, King Saul offered to let David marry Merav<\/a>, possibly as a reward for killing Goliath<\/a>. But David turned the offer down, and Merav married someone else instead. Shortly afterwards, David married Merav\u2019s younger sister Michal.<\/p>\n

Then, many years later, when David was king of Israel, he allowed a tribe called the Gibeonites to kill Merav\u2019s five sons so that a curse would be lifted from the land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t expect this series to cover the entire<\/i> story of David\u2019s kingship \u2014 it would require the actors to age several decades over the course of just a few seasons, for one thing \u2014 but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if some of that morally murky stuff from those later stories informs how the characters are developed in these earlier episodes.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The photo at the top of this page is from Mason\u2019s Twitter profile<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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