DAVID: And I think especially with the chess match and scenes in the past, [we ensured] that they never felt gratuitous, there’s always purpose behind it.
But there were a lot of measures that we went through to maintain that the utmost respect and reverence was paid to do that.
NIKKI: I think the biggest guiding post for us at all times, if we were flashing back to the Holocaust, was that there was a great amount of reverence paid to those scenes.
Furthermore, we went through and made sure that none of the numbers, the tattoos that were on their arms, were numbers that were used by actual prisoners; we started much later.