[stifle] in order to avoid conflict. And
so he’s like a powder keg ready to
explode.”
Lerman, who was raised in a tra-
ditional Jewish household in Beverly
Hills and became bar mitzvah at
L.A.’s Temple Beth Am, identifies in
some ways with his character’s reli-
gious point of view. “I’m proud to
be Jewish,” he said, adding that his
bar mitzvah was a serious affair — a
true rite of passage — without the
requisite fancy party preferred by
some families in Los Angeles. “I love
the traditions and the culture that
has been passed down from genera-
tion to generation. But, that said, I
am an atheist, and I don’t belong to a
temple.”
Lerman’s paternal grandfather,
Max, was born to a Polish family
in Berlin that fled the Holocaust to
Shanghai. His paternal grandmother
was born in Mexico City, the daugh-
ter of Russian Jews.
Since much of Lerman’s family is in
the medical supplies business, he was
a bit of an anomaly when he decided
to pursue acting as a child. At 7, he
appeared as one of Mel Gibson’s sons
in The Patriot; when asked if he was
surprised by Gibson’s anti-Semitic
comments some years later, Lerman
said, “Wasn’t everyone?” Even so,
Gibson was generous to the young
actor and cast him in a second film,
What Women Want, which helped
Lerman to snag additional acting
work.
His titular role in Percy Jackson &
details
the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
placed him even farther along on the
Hollywood map. Lerman went on
to play Noah’s son Ham in Darren
Aronofsky’s 2014 biblical epic, Noah.
Of viewers who denounced the film
because it did not adhere strictly to
Scripture, Lerman said, “They don’t
have to like it.” The actor added that
he was drawn to the movie, in part,
because of its reinterpretation of
Noah as an environmental activist.
One of Lerman’s challenges in pre-
paring for Indignation was coming
to understand his character’s rather
prim view of sex. Otherwise a free-
thinker, Marcus is flummoxed when
his lovely but emotionally damaged
love interest, Olivia (Sarah Gadon),
makes aggressive sexual advances on
their very first date. “Being my age
in the times we’re living in, I couldn’t
really understand that very well,”
the actor said. “But I came to realize
that Marcus couldn’t quite escape all
the socially acceptable values of the
time.”
Olivia could be interpreted as
another version of Roth’s blond, non-
Jewish goddess characters lusted after
by Jewish men. But Lerman doesn’t
see her that way.
“Marcus is attracted to Olivia
because she’s unlike anyone he’s
ever known back home,” the actor
said. “She’s alluring because she’s an
anomaly, a mystery. Marcus doesn’t
understand her, and so he wants to
get to know her. And ultimately that
leads to [tragedy].”
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