These days you can see actor Mickey Leon in the new season of "Doubles" in Arc 12, in a variety of plays at the Gesher Theater and now also on the big screen in the movie "Abu Omar", which went up in theaters this weekend.
The plot of Roy Krispel's film deals with an impossible encounter between Miri, a pregnant Israeli girl (Shani Verchik), and the Palestinian Saleh (Case Nashef), who carries the body of his toddler son, Omar, in a sports bag after dying of an illness in an Israeli hospital.
The father wants to bring his son's body for burial in his village in the West Bank, but at the checkpoint he discovers that there is a curfew and that he is not allowed to enter the territories.
Miri decides to help him, and the two embark on a bitter-sweet surrealist journey into the depths of Israeli society.
Leon plays the CEO of a hotel where Shamiri is his ex, and who volunteered to help Saleh.
"There are all kinds of waves in this area, so now it just so happens that I'm everywhere," says Leon (48) with a smile, "it's nice. It's always fun and pleasant to get attention."
The film deals with our political reality. Has reality penetrated photography?
"I came for four days of filming in the desert, and it was filming a drama. Obviously there are things in the film below the surface, but there was no need to bring them up or talk about them. Everyone knows the situation is crappy. We came to play."
"Doubles" is back after a long time, and you are one of the only ones to have survived it since the first season aired in 2015.
"Yes, for me this is the third season in this series, which is a mainstream intended for Israel's tribal bonfire. It's a format that is seen all over the world and the plot is very ramified. "A scene from episode 4 and then a scene from episode 8. We don't always shoot in chronological order."
Do you watch a genre of suspense series?
"Sure, and it's going back to Sherlock Holmes. Trying to crack the killer's head, and it's fun. 'Duplicate' is also relevant to our reality. The border.
The basic idea that ordinary people suddenly become suspicious corresponds with the social paranoia that accompanies us.
This is a series that touches on all kinds of internal frictions in Israeli society. "
You play in the musical "Bullets Over Broadway," which was recently staged at the Bridge Theater.
"True. It's a musical based on a Woody Allen movie. It's brilliant and fun, with a lot of jazz and New York's 1920s music. I play Chich, a money laundering and assassin. "I'm funding a Broadway production for her to play in. '
You have no problem uploading a Woody Allen piece after all of his daughter's allegations against him?
"No. I heard that Tolstoy was human shit, and there is a good chance that Nabokov was a pedophile. Dostoevsky was probably anti-Semitic, and Wagner's music is the music of Nazi Germany. For me, the work stands on its own."
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