{"id":30890,"date":"2022-05-31T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bradley-coopers-jewish-leonard-bernstein-prosthetics-are-making-people-angry\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:58:35","slug":"bradley-coopers-jewish-leonard-bernstein-prosthetics-are-making-people-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bradley-coopers-jewish-leonard-bernstein-prosthetics-are-making-people-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Cooper’s Jewish Leonard Bernstein Prosthetics Are Making People Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is an unwritten rule of pop culture that whenever photos are released of an actor wearing more than the usual amount of makeup for an upcoming project, every news article about it will deem said actor “unrecognizable.” Rarely is the person actually unrecognizable. For example, that’s clearly Tom Hanks in a fatsuit and fake Vito Corelone jowls in the Elvis <\/em>trailer. And Jessica Chastain is just wearing a lot of bronzer in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.<\/em><\/p>\n But in the case of Bradley Cooper and the just-released first look photos of his Leonard Bernstein biopic Master, <\/em>the word \u201cunrecognizable\u201d is actually warranted. And, in many cases, it’s making people angry, arguing that it’s inappropriate to rely on such heavy prosthetics to make a non-Jewish actor appear more Jewish.<\/p>\n Cooper will be starring as Bernstein, as well as directing the project \u2014 his second directorial effort since 2018’s A Star is Born<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Photos released on Monday show the Hangover <\/em>actor disguised by pounds of prosthetics to resemble the composer behind the music of West Side Story <\/em>and On the Town<\/em>. As an elderly Bernstein, Cooper wears an obviously fake nose and thinning white wig. His forehead wrinkles are deeper than the Grand Canyon and his synthetically weathered hands are knotted with prominent veins.<\/p>\n