{"id":52436,"date":"2016-09-13T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=52436"},"modified":"2016-09-13T23:13:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:13:47","slug":"several-israeli-actors-join-the-cast-of-mary-magdalene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/09\/several-israeli-actors-join-the-cast-of-mary-magdalene.html","title":{"rendered":"Several Israeli actors join the cast of Mary Magdalene<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says Israeli actress Hadas Yaron has joined the cast of Mary Magdalene<\/a><\/i> as the title character\u2019s sister-in-law Sarah. The film\u2019s previously announced co-stars include Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peter and Tahar Rahim as Judas Iscariot.<\/p>\n

It was reported last month<\/a> that the film, which starts shooting next month, will show Mary Magdalene \u201cleav[ing] her small fishing village and family behind\u201d to join the Jesus movement. Presumably Sarah is part of the family that gets left behind \u2014 unless she ends up becoming one of the other women who traveled with the disciples?<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, the New Testament doesn\u2019t say anything about Mary Magdalene\u2019s family, and the only Sarah mentioned in the New Testament is Abraham\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

Yaron may be best-known for playing Hasidic women in the Israeli film Fill the Void<\/i> (2012) and the Canadian film F\u00e9lix & Meira<\/i> (2014, pictured above).<\/p>\n

Yaron isn\u2019t the only Israeli actor who has joined the cast of Mary Magdalene<\/i>. The film\u2019s IMDb page<\/a> lists several others as well, including Michael Moshonov (Matthew), Uri Gavriel (Philip), Zohar Shtrauss (John), Tawfeek Barhom (James) and Shira Haas as someone named Leah (there is no one named Leah in the New Testament).<\/p>\n

Other Israeli actors who have appeared in recent and upcoming Jesus movies include Ayelet Zurer (Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i>, Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i>) and Aviv Alush (The Shack<\/a><\/i>).<\/p>\n

Mary Magdalene<\/i> is based on a script by Helen Edmundson (An Inspector Calls<\/i>) and Philippa Goslett (Little Ashes<\/i>) and is being directed by Garth Davis, whose debut feature Lion<\/a><\/i> is playing this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hadas Yaron, who will play Mary Magdalene’s sister-in-law Sarah, may be best-known for playing Hasidic women in Fill the Void<\/i> and F\u00e9lix & Meira<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3890,964,500,3352,962,3891,2988,3895,3894,3892,3893],"class_list":["post-52436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-hadas-yaron","tag-james","tag-john","tag-mary-magdalene-2017","tag-matthew","tag-michael-moshonov","tag-philip","tag-shira-haas","tag-tawfeek-barhom","tag-uri-gavriel","tag-zohar-shtrauss"],"yoast_head":"\nSeveral Israeli actors join the cast of Mary Magdalene<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hadas Yaron, who will play Mary Magdalene's sister-in-law Sarah, may be best-known for playing Hasidic women in Fill the Void and F\u00e9lix & Meira.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/09\/several-israeli-actors-join-the-cast-of-mary-magdalene.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Several Israeli actors join the cast of Mary Magdalene\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hadas Yaron, who will play Mary Magdalene's sister-in-law Sarah, may be best-known for playing Hasidic women in Fill the Void and F\u00e9lix & Meira.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/09\/several-israeli-actors-join-the-cast-of-mary-magdalene.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-14T06:05:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-14T06:13:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2016\/09\/felixandmeira-a-1024x359.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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