{"id":25479,"date":"2021-06-04T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=25479"},"modified":"2021-06-04T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:11:54","slug":"lucifer-inbar-lavi","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lucifer-inbar-lavi\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Her Character on \u2018Lucifer,\u2019 Inbar Lavi is Ready to Break Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inbar Lavi (Photo: Lee Gumbs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When she first appeared in Season 4 of Netflix<\/a>\u2019s Lucifer<\/em> in 2019, Inbar Lavi\u2019s character, Eve, was an appletini sipping naif. She\u2019d escaped a confined and proscribed existence in Heaven and was ready for some excitement. Every new experience was a thrill, and you could see it in Lavi\u2019s wide-eyed, effervescent performance. As pandemic restrictions begin to ease<\/a> across the country and life slowly returns to something like normal after a year of social distance, that eagerness to experience the world anew<\/a> is something a lot of people can probably relate to.<\/p>\n

Lavi hasn\u2019t exactly spent the past year sitting on her hands, though. In addition to wrapping Lucifer<\/em>\u2019s upcoming final season, she launched a fashion brand, LAVI, which benefits female-owned businesses affected by the pandemic. She\u2019s been busy planning a wedding; Lavi and fianc\u00e9 Dan Bar Shira are getting married this summer. She\u2019s also been making music. Her debut single, the deceptively smooth revenge track \u201cPuppet Master,\u201d is due out later this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u2019s out there and people are listening to my sh*t! That\u2019s crazy!\u201d the Israeli-born actor gushes when she learns I\u2019ve heard a preview of the song. In conversation, her energy is not dissimilar to Eve\u2019s \u2014 delighted, excited \u2014 minus the character\u2019s childlike innocence. On a recent call with GRAZIA<\/em>, Lavi enthusiastically discussed her music and what the future holds for Eve.<\/p>\n

GRAZIA: I was thinking about Eve\u2019s first appearance \u2014 she\u2019s escaped from Heaven and is out looking for as good time on earth. I feel like that\u2019s kind of comparable to how a lot of people probably feel right now as we come out of the pandemic and things start to open up again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inbar Lavi: I think a lot of people can relate to that feeling of, you know, feeling restless and kind of tied down. And now when you finally have that freedom, I think people tend to take more risks and take bigger leaps because they have had that ability taken away from them. So, for me, I think there were a lot of things that I kept putting off before the pandemic. I would say, Oh, one day I\u2019ll release music. Or, you know, We\u2019ll plan the wedding when we have time for it. I\u2019ll launch a fashion line when I have more time. And now it\u2019s just like, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening tomorrow! So, there is no better time and I\u2019m not putting anything off anymore. I\u2019m just jumping in and learning how to swim as I go.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Inbar Lavi (Photo: Lee Gumbs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eve was so innocent and enthusiastic when she first arrived on Lucifer<\/em>. Where did that characterization come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The innocence was really rooted in the way she was written. It actually makes sense if you think about her story. If she is the first woman of mankind, yes, she\u2019s been around for centuries. But she is the first one to try everything. And there is innocence in that. Especially someone like Eve who was doomed to live a lifetime in Heaven where everything is pretty much planned out for her. She never really had a say. The only thing she had a say in, she got reprimanded for\u2014which was having a bite of an apple, which was the first taste of knowing. So everything else comes with a lot of innocence. And I think the only real way to forgive her and find compassion for that traumatizing mistake is if it truly came from a place of innocence. So that was a real core for her, throughout.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously, the show is a fun supernatural crime show. But has the role made you think differently about the religious and cultural archetype of Eve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I definitely think about it more. When you\u2019re presented with a character who has been blamed for the\u2026basically the crumbling of mankind, it makes you really wonder: Where did that originate from? Why is it a woman? Why is it so frowned upon to have a bite if you\u2019re tempted to? Why is temptation such a taboo? What does the devil represent? What does it mean if the devil is actually a fallen angel? All those questions, to really dive that deep into those stories that are kind of the ground that we\u2019re building our society upon, was really, really interesting to me. It\u2019s endless, and I think that\u2019s why the show\u2019s been going for so long and does so well. And there\u2019s no one answer, and it\u2019s so complicated and layered and juicy. Yes, I definitely think about it more than I ever did.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Inbar Lavie as Eve in Lucifer<\/i> (Photo: John P. Fleener\/Netflix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eve made such an impression in the show\u2019s fourth season. She\u2019s very charismatic and kind of a breath of fresh air. But then she was out of the picture for most of Season 5. What kind of reactions did you get from fans during her absence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I absolutely feel a breath of fresh air when I step into her. I\u2019m glad to see that it\u2019s coming across. I mean, fans missed me! And I missed them and I missed the show. Season 5 was supposed to be the final season, and the writers were gearing up to give the audience the most fantastic grand finale. I was always planned to come towards the end. The whole plan was to have them wonder, Is she coming back? What\u2019s the endgame? And then boom! She shows up. And we were supposed to wrap it up. And then very late into the game they said, \u201cYou\u2019re getting another season.\u201d I\u2019m so grateful to be a much larger part in Season 6.<\/em><\/p>\n

What can you say about the role Eve will play in the final season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the only real way I can answer that is to keep it specific to Eve and her storyline. I think the most important thing, to me, when I look at a character, is to have an arch. So, you start somewhere, you go somewhere and you end somewhere completely different. Because if you end in the same place you started, there\u2019s not growth and there\u2019s nothing to learn from that. For me, Season 5, yes, there\u2019s development. It\u2019s coming into your own and learning some lessons. But there were a lot of similarities in terms of the actual story of what was going on for Eve. And I was really happy to see that in Season 6 it changes.<\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019re releasing your first single later this month. Have you always been a musician as well as an actor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It kind of came hand-in-hand. Growing up in Israel, I would always put on plays for my parents and get on stage and sing in kindergarten and middle school and high school. I would write songs and I would sing them all the time. I would just perform for anyone who was bored enough to listen. I was one of those annoying kids, really! At some point it became very clear to me that I\u2019m no Mariah Carey<\/a> and I had very clear passion for acting and for storytelling in that way. But I never stopped loving music. It\u2019s very much a part of my life. I have a lot of musician friends. That\u2019s our core group and what we do on Shabbat dinners is we gather around a table and sing Shabbos songs. And we eat and then we sit by the piano and we can literally sit down and write a song together. That\u2019s something we do on a regular hangout.<\/em><\/p>\n

And two years ago, I was going through a rough breakup. I had all this emotion inside me that I needed to channel out. We had just wrapped the show. I wasn\u2019t on a set and I wasn\u2019t filming and I didn\u2019t have a way to channel it. And I started writing it all down. My manager at the time was the first person to see that and really recognize the potential and said, \u201cI want to throw you in a studio with a producer and see what happens.\u201d We wrote a really beautiful song, and then we wrote another, and then we wrote 20.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who are some of your musical influences?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So many! I have a list of Israeli artists that you probably wouldn\u2019t know. Arik Ainshtein is, like, a genius. Shalom Chanuch and Yehudit Ravitz \u2014 these are records that my dad would play nonstop. He also listened to Abba and Pink Floyd, and I love Nina Simone and Norah Jones and Whitney Houston and Britney Spears<\/a>, you know? It\u2019s endless. And they all affected me in different ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

How would you describe your sound?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, listen, we consider it indie pop. I guess that\u2019s what it is. It\u2019s so strange to me to even put it in a box or to even consider myself a musician. This is so new. I think you\u2019re the first person I\u2019m talking to about my music.<\/em><\/p>\n

Talk to me about \u201cPuppet Master.\u201d What\u2019s the song about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, \u201cPuppet Master\u201d was written from a place of frustration. I remember, I had a conference call in the car driving up to my producer, J.T. Roach who wrote it with me. And I was very, very upset after that call. And he was super chill. He was like, \u201cWhat are you thinking? Do you have any ideas?\u201d and I was like, \u201cYES!\u201d It was very clear to me that I felt in that moment like my hands were tied and I don\u2019t do well when I\u2019m out of control. That was my way, in that room, of gaining that control back and getting my power back. I think everyone can relate to feeling like they\u2019re a puppet in someone else\u2019s show. For me, the power comes from realizing that no one can ever really use you as a puppet. No one can every really control you or take away your power. You can only let them. The only way for you to get your power back is when you put your foot down, when you don\u2019t let people step all over you, when you don\u2019t work with people who might take advantage of you. When you don\u2019t go into a relationship where someone might abuse you. The idea is to cut the ties. And that doesn\u2019t have to be from someone else holding those. It can be cutting the ties from yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also wanted to ask what it\u2019s been like for you, personally, as an Israeli, watching and reading about the situation in Israel<\/a> over the last few weeks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, thank you for bringing it up. I know it\u2019s a very loaded topic, and it\u2019s a complicated question to ask. It\u2019s absolutely a complicated question to answer. And I appreciate you bringing it to light as opposed to acting like it doesn\u2019t exist, which tends to make the problem even bigger.<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t find out about what\u2019s happening in Israel from the news or from Instagram. I found out about it because my mom and my brothers and sisters and cousins and family and best friends and everyone that I know, that I\u2019m connected to, lives there. So, I found out because my phone started ringing. Because they all had to run down into underground shelters to hide from bombs coming towards their house. So, my experience of these few weeks \u2014 or couple months, I should say \u2014 has been from one WhatsApp message to the next, just praying to God that they were still alive. And I think that\u2019s something that you can\u2019t learn from Instagram or from CNN News. I grew up like this. This is a constant battle that has been going on since the beginning of time in the Middle East. And the reality is that both sides suffer.<\/em><\/p>\n

War is a terrible thing, and when there is war, there is only consequences and only losers. There\u2019s never winners. People who live in Gaza are miserable. People who live in Israel are miserable. And the only thing that they can both agree on is that there is a real need for change. And I actually just heard that there is change in place. From what I understand, our government is about to \u2014\u00a0 they\u2019re basically pushing out [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, which is a real inkling of hope. More so than we\u2019ve had in years. I believe Gaza has gone through a real\u2026[shake-up] in the past couple months as well, and they would have more of a hopeful place to negotiate from now on. I always want to believe that there\u2019s a world where we can live together in peace and be able to be good neighbors. 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