Comedian's new series 'Mo' tells an immigrant story with love, toil and humor
Lee Eddy as Lizzie Horowitz, Farah Bsieso as Yusra, Omar Elba as Sameer, Cherien Dabis as Nadia, Mo Amer as Mo in 'Mo.'“My father, before he passed, he taught me about business,” Amer said. “When he was gone, it was the mother of invention. There was this necessity to make money. I’d always tell people they were getting the last one of something. Then a week later everybody’s wearing the same . People come back angry, and I’d just tell them I had even newer stock.
A striking piece of music plays, which Amer said is “Yamo,” which had been featured in a Syrian TV show called “Ghawar.” It’s a love letter to mothers, and Amer says when it was used on “Ghawar” it was one of only two times he saw his father cry. “Extracting something so rich through this painstaking process, it just became a metaphor for trying to create this series,” he said. “And there are other things: the idea of the olive branch. There’s theft of olive trees in the show that echoes the theft of Palestinian homes.”
Amer has enjoyed success in stand-up comedy for years now. His chosen line of work requires a delicately calibrated sense of dynamics. Amer’s personality is formidable, but he understands the power imbued in silence. The editing of “Mo” was a labored process. He knew the quiet and the loud, the dramatic and the comic had to be perfect.
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