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Maia Morgenstern is one of the most popular Romanian film and theater actresses. Born in Bucharest to a Jewish family, she studied at the Film and Theater Academy in the capital of the country, graduating in 1985. She was described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as “a symbol of Romanian theater and film”.
Viewers remembered her in the role of Mary. The actress did not know the language she was supposed to use on the set of the film
Maia Morgenstern is an exceptionally valued and talented actress who was a member of the ensemble of the National Theater in Bucharest in 1990-1998. Currently, he performs at the Jewish State Theater and other theaters not only in Bucharest. In she appeared mainly in roles in Romanian.
In the hit production of Mel Gibson from 2004, i.e. in “The Passion of the Christ”, she used the Aramaic language. Like the other actors in the film’s cast, she simply memorized her lines phonetically. Interestingly, according to , it was not without reason that Gibson, who is a staunch Catholic, was cast in the mother of Jesus. Her surname Morgenstern means “Morning Star” in German, a title of the Mother of God. Interestingly, according to , the actress was pregnant during the shooting, but she did not tell anyone about it. One day she approached Jim Caviezel and in broken English with a Romanian accent she announced “I have a baby. In my belly.” According to the latest, we will see the actress again in the role of Mary in the continuation of the film “The Passion”. Work on it will start in spring 2023.
Maia Morgenstern received death threats. Anti-Semitic Scandal in Romania
The Romanian actress of Jewish origin was in the center of the media thanks to the scandal that came to light two years ago. Maia Morgenstern posted screenshots of an email she had received at several addresses. They contained death threats and explicit references to the Holocaust. The case sparked outrage nationally and internationally.
Two days later, on March 29, 2021, Romanian prosecutors announced that the police had arrested the sender of the message. In the caption, the 25-year-old culprit wrote that the letter came from AUR, a young Romanian nationalist party. The party’s then-chairman George Simion, however, dissociated himself from the letter, calling it “a humiliating anti-Semitic attack”.
Source: Gazeta
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