After years of fielding offers to play Israeli secret agent Eli Cohen in various projects, SachaBaronCohen took on the task in Gideon Raff's six-part Netflix series 'The Spy'
, but to actually take a lead role where the character was essentially relatable was something that I was not used to doing … I was used to playing the larger-than-life, peculiar, outlandish, fascinating characters.I spent about a month in Morocco really observing wealthy Arab tourists who had come to Casablanca — I'd be sitting on a sofa in some very high-end place watching men, the way they flirted with women, because they'd do that in Casablanca.
Did stepping into this new genre feel out of your wheelhouse, or was it a similar process to inhabiting your more outlandish characters? It was completely out of my wheelhouse. There were similarities in that for each character, I try to develop a complete persona, from the way they walk to their accent to their appearance to their backstory.
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