![]() “It’s subtle, but when you are Jewish.” Ryder left the sentence hanging in the air, as she often did in our conversation, breathlessly leaping on to her next thought. “People say, ‘You’re Jewish, but you’re so pretty…you don’t look Jewish,’” Ryder said, her face convulsed with an unclassifiable mixture of surprise and disappointment as she sat in a Pasadena hotel room. ![]() ![]() But the thing that gave Ryder most pause was remembering a comment she’d heard repeatedly from entertainment industry insiders over the years, including people she respected. Ryder flashed back to the time someone drew swastikas on her brother’s locker, and her youthful nights at the San Francisco punk club Mabuhay Gardens-where she’d keep an eye out for skinheads whose combat boots had white laces, a symbol for white power. Based on Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, the series imagines an alternative history in which Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, resulting in anti-Semitic policies and outbreaks of violence against Jews. While Winona Ryder was shooting the HBO limited series The Plot Against America, she thought about whether she’d experienced anti-Semitism. ![]()
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