Joseph Zada

Uh, he's in the new Hunger Games thing.

Um, I think it's, like, Joseph Zada I wanna say it is, Z-A-D-A.

Ooh, that name sounds sexual.

He, he was also-

This new East of Eden is loaded with amazing actors.

Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Feist, of course, lead the ensemble, but also amazing performances from Kieran Hines and Hun Lee, Joseph Zada, Tracy Letts.

There's a lot of great stuff.

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But man, I think the Hines stuff and his idea with Lee and how he kind of dresses down Adam at times, like... just a lot of good stuff there.

I think once they get to Salinas, which is, like, episode three, and you have that house, which I think is a very memorable, like, you know, setting, very, like, you know, movie house, TV house, awesome thing.

And... you know the salinas uh town stuff very obviously like a you know production set um you know studio set but still looks really good and the period details really strong and then i gotta say you know once we like you know there's a lot of time skips throughout the story but once we get to adam's kids becoming young adults and you get joseph zada and uh joe anders as uh caleb and aaron I actually really got attached to those characters and those performances.

I got to shout out Joseph Zada as Cal.

It's a brutal ending.

Cal, the son who feels inherently wicked, played by Joseph Zada, takes his idealistic, fiercely naive twin brother Aaron, played by Joe Anders, on a trip to shatter his worldview.

Yeah.

Cal takes Aaron to the brothel to reveal the truth about their mother Cathy.

Yes.

When you cast Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist as Adam and Charles, and then Joseph Zada and Joe Anders as Cal and Aaron, you are watching actors step into roles that are essentially avatars for humanity's oldest conflict.

Yeah.

You watch the first generation make these catastrophic, emotionally driven mistakes, and then you watch the second generation step right into the exact same footprints.

... installment of The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, is well underway.

We've got the stars of it, Joseph Zada, who is Australian Sydney boy playing Haymitch, young Haymitch, coming to Australia next week with McKenna Grace, who is just, like, the most delightful, like, fan favorite, and is really leaning into everything Hunger Games.

She's been doing that since she got cast, which is great.

Yeah.

And this time around, it's his granddaughter, Zoe Kazan, who has written it for television and has produced it.

It stars Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Han Li, Kieran Hines, Joseph Zada, and some others.

East of Eden is a metaphorical retelling of the story of Cain and Abel that in the book and in the limited series spans two generations of Cains and Abels.

First we have the brothers Charles and Adam in Connecticut, and then we have the brothers Caleb and Aaron, the sons of Adam, and maybe the sons of Charles in Salinas, California.

And Cal?

Cal, played by Joseph Zada, inherits the darkness.

He is the complex, troubled child, reflecting both his Uncle Charles and his mother Kathy.

But there is a crucial difference in this generation's ecosystem, and that is Lee.

He plays Samuel Hamilton, Adam's neighbor.

Joseph Zada as Caleb "Cal" Trask, Kathy and Adam's son, and A- Aaron's fraternal twin brother.

Joe Anders as Aaron Trask, Kathy and Adam's son, and Caleb's fraternal twin brother.

Martha Plimpton as Fay, the madam of the prestigious brothel.