“You know, until before the war there was no gate at the entrance to the house, this gate at the entrance to the house is from October 7,” says Amos Tamm in his home in Savion. “I couldn’t sleep at night, I kept going to the children’s room. They play a lot of hide-and-seek here, and my son hid in the closet, and I see two little hands closing the closet. And all I see at that moment is a scene from that terrible day of children hiding in the closet.” .
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You didn’t want to go back to the shows.
“No. We have an insane amount of abductees, citizens, whose only sin was that they simply slept in their house on the holiday of Simchat Torah. So on the one hand, we must not forget that and we must constantly remind our leaders that we do not return to life until they return home.” .
“I have a friend Avichai, MP in Givatay,” Tamam continues to tell. “He was injured on October 7. When I shared these feelings with him he said to me: ‘What are you talking about? If you don’t continue to live, then what are we fighting for?'”
But even the war could not stop Amos Tamm’s soaring career. At the age of 46, he is in the busiest year of his career. With three main roles on television, with two successful plays in the theater and a coveted campaign.
“The war devoured everything”, he explains how he ended up being involved in so many things at the same time. “‘Matooks’ was supposed to come out in October and ‘Manayich’ in January and ‘Lovesick’ ahead in June. And there was supposed to be some kind of balance between the things. And suddenly everything came together.”
You can’t escape.
“To be honest, I’m now a bit, I’m a bit in…”
Overexposure?
“Internally is a little too much for me. Because what I love about my profession, I don’t have a fixed plan. I come and go. So I embrace it, I accept it, and I also deal with the feelings.”
“There were years when dealing with the mirror bored me.” Amos Tamm Photo: News 12
“It’s hard to get Ramla out of the child”
His house with the trampoline in the yard looks like a kibbutz. But the kibbutz that Amos has lived in for the past three years is called Savion, in a modest house, close to his wife’s parents. The one who was born in Ramla to a family of six children and helped earn a living from the age of nine, does not apologize for the new status.
The distance between Ramla and Sabion is a distance like…
“15 minutes drive”.
Do you have the moments you don’t like?
“I don’t like what?”
that you succeeded and have money, and you live in Sabion.
“I don’t have a start-up and I didn’t make an exit. So I’m not really there. And I wish I was there, and I won’t apologize for that.”
“I can tell you that it is very, very important to me how my children grow up, what they get, that they know that you also have to make an effort for things,” Tamam says. “But yes, there is this saying that it may be easy to take the child out of Ramla, but it’s hard to take Ramla out of the child. And that’s okay – it’s me.”
You can’t escape it. Amos Tamm in “Manayich” | Photo: Roy Roth, public relations
“Couscous and macaroni, macaroni bel kankesh”
In the new and talked about series “Love Sick” Amos Tamam plays Micah Hadad who was born and raised in a Tunisian family Aslit from Ramla and became a success story.
“Micah’s story, as I relate to him, is that he is marked as the first eastern prime minister, which is something we are currently only talking about and we are only dreaming of, and unfortunately it has not happened yet,” notes Tamm. “And not only is he the first eastern prime minister, he is a Tunisian from Ramla, and when I read it, I said, ‘What? Someone wrote a series about me.'”
Amos Tamam with Dana Samo and Rina succeeds in the series | Photo: News 12
Micah Hadad’s mother is played by Rina Mishal. “We have a connection, Lee and Larina are very strong in this story,” says Tamm. “Also because we are both really Tunisian, our source is the same source. She tells me all kinds of things that I understand about a blind person, as it were. Also, she has been promising me for a long time that I will come to taste her food. I heard about her food, he heard it from afar. Couscous and macaroni, macaroni bel kankesh”.
Until Rina prepares her famous couscous, she and Amos meet at a restaurant for vegan bruschetta.
“Do you know what the first thing everyone said to me?” asks Rina and says: “Why his mother, though? Why not his partner?”
“By the way, I have to tell you that I was flattered that I’m too young to be your mother,” she tells Amos.
Tamm: “That’s true, by the way, isn’t it?”
Rina: “I really liked that response.”
“Lovesick” tries to break stigmas on a charged subject like cancer. A study that tested its effect, revealed that it contributed to a considerable increase in awareness that men can also get breast cancer.
The script corresponds with Rina’s personal experience. “I broadcast on TV with a wig and no one knew,” she says.
“When we saw the first two episodes together, they did a screening for us, she cried,” shares Amos.
“I’m not 20 anymore, there are prettier than me”
As part of the preparations for filming “Love Sick”, he shaved his head. “There were dramas here with baldness,” he says. “Because my daughter didn’t agree. And I woke her up in the morning with a hat, because I got back from filming really late and she was already asleep, and she really, really didn’t… Now, what am I going to do? There’s no way to go back.”
“There were dramas here with baldness.” In “Love Sick” | Photo: From “Lovesick”, Keshet 12
But did you have a hard time with it? After all, your CD is part of the character.
“Not only was it not difficult for me, I’m looking forward to the episodes when I’m bald. From one who always fixes my hair and it’s important to me how I’m told and I always surround myself with people who can tell me at 12 at night. I felt like I threw away crutches.”
Do people comment on your appearance? Do you and your wife read talkbacks together?
“We don’t look at talkbacks and sometimes people also go outside the limits.”
When she is there can this happen?
“Yes”.
I have to understand, what inappropriate things are said to you when you are with your wife?
“You embarrass me. But think of anything that comes to your mind, I was told either at a traffic light or on the road, sometimes with the children. It can start with ‘how handsome you are’ and there are also things not for TV, I’ll tell you later.”
Does the preoccupation with appearance come to a good player?
“There have been years when dealing with the appearance bored me. Because I want my talent to be seen. But, come on, I’m not 20 anymore, and there are already prettier than me and there are handsomer than me. And to my great joy, I get to do significant roles. In the end, it’s an image. But I I don’t bother with it, because it’s not the point for me – and it’s important. Together.”
A daring scene with Karen Moore
In the last year, a harvest of praise for the role of Oedipus in the modern adaptation of the Kameri was completed. Includes one particularly daring scene with Karen Moore.
Amos Tamm and the actress Naama Shetrit who plays his daughter Photo: News 12
“Oedipus is a politician who is involved in his family history, and from there the plot gets complicated,” he says about the show.
So actually in “Oedipus” you are a politician as well as in “Lovesick”.
“True. They both really, really want to bring in a different politics. They both have the same daughter,” he says of the actress Naama Shetrit who plays his daughter in both the series and the show.
He says that after he was cast in “Love Sick” he felt that Naama who played with him in “Oedipus” had to play his daughter here as well. “I told them there was someone I felt would be really good for the job,” he recalled. “They answered me: ‘Listen, send, but we are already quite closed’. And I send them a picture, and they tell me: ‘This is the actress we chose’. That… is on the borderline of the delusional.”
Amos Tamm and Rina succeed Photo: News 12
Must take me as an atonement
This week he flew to two months of filming in Athens, to film the second season of “Travel Warning”. The Israeli series that was an international success when it premiered on Netflix.
This place of an international career, is it something that tickles your fancy?
“Look, if I say no, then I’m a liar, because the answer is yes. On the other hand, I’m very good here. Even if one day it happens, with God’s help, then this will still be my home and not anywhere else.”
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When we photographed him with Rina Mishleh, she asked to interview him as well.
If you weren’t an actor, what would you be?
“I would very much like to expand in the field.”
to direct?
“Yes”.
When you’re in May, you have to take me, atonement. I have to be with you.
“Don’t feel like I got it”
Studio Shishi wanted to photograph him in the Ramla market and he canceled. “I don’t want to come to the Ramla market on the ‘Cinderella from the market’ standard. I grew up in the market in Ramla. My father had a spice shop at first, then a deli. And I sold my heart there and I sold lemonade there. The market is my home. So it was very convenient to go take pictures there Many times. But at some point I reach a point where they tell me, ‘Last time you were there, you were at his place, why don’t you come to me?’ So I said, ‘We’re not going to the market in Ramla. That’s enough. I have more parts.'”
Maybe you can get Amos out of Ramla, but not Ramla out of Amos. And he is the first to admit that what brought him to the top were the things he shared at home. “I was raised to aspire, to be ambitious. And the seemingly less good part of it, is that I never feel like I’ve arrived, that I’ve achieved. Even though I’ve fulfilled myself 600%, I always feel like I haven’t done anything yet.”
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