Adam Brody first came to fame 13 years ago as the half-Jewish, Chrismukkah-celebrating Seth Cohen in the Newport Beach-set series “The O.C.” This fall, he’s playing another Jewish character, Nick Talman, in the drama “StartUp,” now streaming on Crackle.com.
“It’s offhandedly mentioned a few times,” Brody said of Talman’s Jewishness. But this decidedly more serious series, set in Miami, focuses on the tech, banking and cybercrime world, with Haitian gangsters thrown in. The milieu was a draw for him, as was shooting in Puerto Rico. “We shot on real beach locations. The texture of it is visceral and in your face,” he said.
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