The Cast on World on Fire Season 1
Season 1
short | 02:28 | CC
Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and more introduce the epic, all-new World War II drama.
- World on Fire tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
- How would I sum it up in three words?
Human, transformation, and scale.
- The best pieces of work make you feel less alone, and, hopefully, they wake you up.
- It's an amazing production.
I read it, and I was kind of engrossed in it.
It reads so beautifully.
It's like a well-written novel.
- So many people of my generation don't quite understand World War II.
It's easy to detach yourself from it, because it seems like such a long time ago, but it really wasn't.
These were our grandparents.
I think what's so wonderful about this series is that it's not trying to be a piece about war, it's a piece about families, and love, and having to survive.
- At least I'm fightin' on the right side.
At least gimme that.
- Oh, everybody thinks that in every war they ever fight.
- When you're doing period anything, it's a lotta cliches.
We think we know how people talked.
We think we know how people behaved and what they wanted.
- You need to get out of Europe.
- I love that you bothered to call, but, please, Paris is safe.
- Very unique individuals in the war, how it effects all their lives in all these different countries.
- What I love about this series is that it's premised on the idea that human nature is essentially unchanged.
Let's perform this, and write this, film this in a way that tries to evoke the emotion of what those times felt like.
- All we can each do is our very best at our job, and hopefully when all that comes together it affects people.
- It's a lovely thing about this that there's a lot of young energy and there's a lot of very experienced energy, as well.
The two go really nicely hand in hand.
Look at the state of this.
- The Nazis are so close to the border, they shot at me.
- Well, you do rub people up the wrong way.
- What we can do is try and find a way to make this feel contemporary, so that the problems and the danger that was going on back then can feel very relevant.
- But, I find it so universal.
It's about love, about freedom, about wanting to be free when you can't.
- You need to leave.
- Where would I be running to?
This is my home.
- For people that might not think to be interested in a World War II drama, they will certainly be interested in ordinary people that they can relate to in all different ways, cause I think there is something for everyone.
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