Critics said Bradley Cooper's decision to wear a fake nose plays up to Jewish stereotypes.
Maestro is due to premiere at next month's Venice Film Festival.The family of Leonard Bernstein has defended Bradley Cooper's controversial decision to wear a large prosthetic nose while playing the Jewish composer in a new film.
Critics said the decision to wear a fake nose plays up to Jewish stereotypes, and have dubbed it "Jewface," in reference to the historic "Blackface" practice of non-Black performers darkening their faces for roles.But the late Bernstein's three children said they were "perfectly fine with" Cooper's decision "to use makeup to amplify his resemblance" to their father.
He served as music director of the New York Philharmonic, and wrote the Broadway musical West Side Story.Maestro is a biographical romance about Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre, who is played by Carey Mulligan.
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