Cote De Pablo Returns To TV: Actress To Star In Biblical Role In 'The Dovekeepers'

During Cote de Pablo’s break from TV, the actress received a copy of “The Dovekeepers” script, a miniseries based on Alice Hoffman's namesake best-selling novel, which had de Pablo sobbing by page 24 because it was “so beautiful.” “I was in Greece and I was overlooking the ocean. Everything about the environment around me was set up in a way that would make me want to put down the script. It was the perfect setup to go, 'Oh, great. A script. I won't read it' but in reality I couldn't put it down.”

The story is about the lives of four women who were part of the approximately 900 Jews that resisted the Roman army and stopped them from taking over. Hoffman set the story around 70 A.D in Masada, a Judean desert in Israel. The filming, however, had to take place in Malta, due to the unstable political climate in Israel. “The idea of just being there even if it was just for a little bit was incredible but they chose an island in the Mediterranean, the country of Malta, and a beautiful, beautiful place so I think we were able to reach a good balance.”

Other actors in the cast include Rachel Brosnahan, Diego Boneta, Kathryn Prescott and Sam Neill. De Pablo says the actors became “very close” and she’s always grateful for that “because I suffer my own little lonely pains having left my country (Chile) when I was so young,” she joked. “For me, being in another place and not knowing people, I immediately gravitate toward, ‘Hey! So where are you from? Let's be buddies.’”