BBC Newsbeat
Referring to Netflix’s hit based on their own life, there are two things that fall on the Palestinian comedian Mo Amer.
Pride and hurt.
“It’s very difficult to talk about not breaking at some point,” he tells BBC Newsbeat.
He is the star of a semi -automatic show called Mo, who plays the role of Mo Nursor.
The character is a Palestinian refugee who is learning to adapt to his new world because he tries to gain American citizenship by moving into a complex immigration process – as long as he tries to gather his cultures and languages.
The production of the show so closely related to his life was “very taxed” because of the “pure amount of emotions”.
“I’m extremely proud of that. I put my soul into it and it still hurts me from making it,” Mo says.
There was another challenge for navigation – if this second season was set.
The last episode, which shows Mo’s visit to his family home on the west coast, was set on 6 October 2023.
This is the day before the armed Palestinian group Hamas launched an unprecedented cross -border attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages.
This launched a massive Israeli military offensive in Gaza, which killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to the HAMAS Ministry of Health.
Avoiding 7 October in the story was “very intentional,” Mo.
The show is ultimately “based in comedy,” he says, and the episodes have set a focus after focusing on the story and the characters.
“You didn’t actually follow them, emotions of them,” Mo says.
‘I never lose hope’
MO says he wanted to keep in mind the “greater context” and that focusing on October 7, and after that “almost insinuates this just started”.
“It couldn’t be beyond the truth,” he says, referring to Long history of conflict.
There was also practical consideration, he says, because of the length of time between recording and posting for more than a year.
“It was like a scary territory to write about something, and then all these things would happen.
“And then everything you wrote and assembled in the series could be irrelevant.”
The show had a wide Positive receptionGiven that the finals are emotional for fans – and Mo.
He follows the trip of the character with his family to Israeli western coast and their lives there.
From his perspective, he shows that the complex daily Palestinians can face, such as subjection closer to control at control points controlled by Israeli soldiers.
Mo’s character is also shown to be extinguished.
The Western coast – the country between Israel and the Jordan River – is a home of about three million Palestinians and half a million Jewish settlers.
With eastern Jerusalem and gauze, this is part of what is widely known as the occupied Palestinian territory.
Israel occupied areas in the Middle East in 1967 and built settlements, which according to international law is considered illegal. Israel disputes this.
Palestinians claim that areas for the future independent state and want all settlements to be removed.
“I have received so many calls from people who are completely completely shame after watching the last episode and how meaningful it was for them to watch,” Mo says.
He adds that “not only Palestinians” contacted him.
MO says the last episode – originally 60 minutes – was “almost like we made the movie” Before it was eventually decorated for 39 minutes.
He says he wanted to cover “the main blows”, which included and how difficult it was to enter and live as a Palestinian once there.
“Immediately, you’re not on vacation,” he says. “You’re actually on the edge.”
It can believe that there was generally a limited representation of Palestinians in the TV, which means more pressure on his shoulders.
“It’s a lot [pressure] Of the fans … more external voices of what I should say, not to say – both Palestinian and not -Palestinian, “he says.
“You really have to put the blinds and stay focused on telling the story I know and that I experienced firsthand.”
MO says he can’t “get away” from the fact that Palestinians do not see him as a spokesman, admitting that he feels “like public property at the moment.”
“I think everyone just needs to manage their expectations. But I won’t turn away from it,” he says.
“Those who agree with me or disagree with me … It’s important to continue dialogue and talk.”
An agreement on the interruption of fire in Gaza gave hope that it could be the end of the fight, but it was also fragile, it is worried that the contract could be demolished.
MO says “always hoping” things can get better.
“I never lose hope.
“If you do, then it becomes real, a really sad place whenever you are deprived of hope,” he says.
