This series was developed and shown in Israel on the YES cable network and has been available with subtitles on Netflix for years, where it has become an unexpected international hit, and one which reportedly is a guilty pleasure for some Palestinians.Asked which side will identify more with the series, Israelis or Palestinians, Raz said, “The magic in Fauda is that everyone sees something else.”Arabs from around the world often contact him, he said, including Israeli-Arabs. “The other day, someone from Algeria wrote to me,” he said. He added, “At the end of the day, Avi andI wrote the series and we’re not Palestinians, we’re not Arabs. And there are certainly those who don’t like it, from both the Israeli side and Arab side... but that’s OK, it’s art and those who connect to it, connect to it.”The fact that it is an international hit has not added to the pressure or changed the way he and Issacharoff work on it, he insisted.Asked to describe some of the season’s more complex scenes, he went mum. He would say, though, that this season “is much more emotional than the previous ones, and I think it took some coping for us as actors, I feel that in this season, I did some things I didn’t do in the first seasons.In response to a question on how they keep the plot secret, Raz joked, “Avi and I beat the actors who talk,” but went on to say, “Fauda is a family. You know what? That’s the answer.Really, we get together outside of the set, there is a great atmosphere. Everyone knows how important the spoilers are, and no one lets it get out because everyone feels part of the process of this series.... You know, my wife doesn’t even know the plot of this season. We don’t tell, because in every episode, crazy things happen and we don’t want [to ruin it].”Thanks to the success of the series, Raz now has an international career and just finished filming the international thriller, 6 Underground, with Ryan Reynolds. On a big production like that, Raz said, “Only the director will talk to you about your performance. Here, the sound man can tell you you’ve gotten fat, the boom man can say, ‘You didn’t do the scene that well.’”But while in Hollywood there is all kinds of on-set pampering, “The family is here.”
It’s a wrap! Lior Raz dishes on Season 3 of Fauda
While the cast and crew are under strict orders not to reveal any spoilers, they did post photos of the wrap party on their Instagram feed.
