‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Disagrees With Director’s Oscars Gaza Speech

Jonathan Glazer shocked audiences when he used his Oscars acceptance speech to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, comparing today’s Israel to Nazi Germany. But not all of his colleagues from the award-winning film The Zone of Interest agree with him.

In an appearance on the Unholy podcast last week, Zone of Interest executive producer Danny Cohen said that he wholeheartedly disagreed with Glazer’s statements at the awards ceremony.

“I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan on this,” Cohen told hosts Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland. He agreed that the war is “tragic and awful” and blamed Hamas for the loss of civilian life in Gaza.

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