{"id":31520,"date":"2022-06-01T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bradley-coopers-prosthetic-nose-in-leonard-bernstein-biopic-sparks-jewface-debate\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:38:23","slug":"bradley-coopers-prosthetic-nose-in-leonard-bernstein-biopic-sparks-jewface-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bradley-coopers-prosthetic-nose-in-leonard-bernstein-biopic-sparks-jewface-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in Leonard Bernstein biopic sparks ‘Jewface’ debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
JTA – As Netflix released the first stills from the set of \u201cMaestro,\u201d Bradley Cooper’s upcoming biopic film about Leonard Bernstein, there was one thing most fans could agree about.<\/p>\n
Cooper looked utterly unrecognizable, especially in one image as an elderly version of the iconic Jewish conductor.<\/p>\n
But as legions of angry social media users pointed out on Monday, part of Cooper’s transformation involved a prosthetic nose, something that many found to be antisemitic – especially since Cooper is not Jewish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s no reason to believe that the decision to wear a fake nose is a deliberately antisemitic act,\u201d wrote James Hirsh, a co-host of the Menschwarmers podcast about Jewish athletes, in the Canadian Jewish News. \u201cCooper is presumably interested in exploring the life of a great composer whom he admires. A number of Jews are involved in the production. And the prosthesis arguably helps with the resemblance.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this is Cooper’s third time portraying a historical figure on screen,\u201d Hirsh added. \u201cNo prosthetics were used to play American Sniper’s Chris Kyle or Licorice Pizza’s Jon Peters. He didn’t use them to play the Elephant Man on Broadway. “<\/p>\n