Hugh Laurie, who starred in the third season of Tehran, eulogized Dana Eden, the show’s co-creator, on X/Twitter after her unexpected death in an Athens hotel room earlier this week and came in for a wave of anti-Israel attacks, which he responded to angrily.
However, in his response, he raised the ire of those who support Israel by dissociating himself from Zionism, showing how the term itself has become an insult in the public square.
Laurie played a nuclear regulatory inspector in the third season of the series, which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series, and which is available in Israel on KAN and internationally on Apple TV.
Hugh Laurie at Keshet’s Innovative TV Conference in Jerusalem (credit: ODED KARNI/INTV)
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