’s weight loss in concerned her friend and former costar when he visited her on set. “It was a heavy time,” Perez told King during their episode of ’s . “I remember it was winter, January, just freezing, and thinking of you there was tough.
But also the subject matter that you were in. When I showed up, I was like, ‘Jo, are you OK? Because you’ve lost a lot of weight.’” Perez and King starred opposite each other in Netflix’s 2020 sequel, , and have been friends ever since.
King most recently starred in Hulu’s miniseries , which premiered all eight episodes on March 28. “I got very, very, very thin for that show because my character is a Jewish woman passing as an Aryan woman,” she explained to Perez. “At the beginning of the war, they’re living off rations.
And then the access to food is so limited.” Based on the 2017 book of the same name by , inspired by the real-life story of her own family, follows King as Halina Kurc, a young Jewish woman whose family has been torn apart at the start of World War II. “We were trying to be as smart and safe about it as possible, but we were trying to be mindful that the responsibility we have to this story is so immense,” she said.
“The least we can do is find discomfort where it’s necessary. We’re not actually going through the Holocaust; we’re portraying a family that is.” She continued, “At the end of the day, we should feel uncomfortable when doing these scenes that require such heavy em.