Bradley Cooper is getting a crap for his ridiculous use of prosthetics in his latest Oscar-bait movie

 

Various news outlets  - along with social media uproar - are reporting that Bradley Cooper is being dragged for using a ridiculously large fake nose in his latest Oscar bait Netflix movie "Maestro". Bradley stars, co-wrote, and directed it.

The movie is a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein. A trailer was released which shows Bradley in the fake nose which looks like a disguise someone would wear as part of a tacky Halloween costume (sans the eyeglasses). IMO, real talent doesn't need to rely on cheap gimmicks or a stereotype to portray the life of Mr. Bernstein.

In an article on Page Six, Jewish actress Tracy Ann Oberman made an excellent point about this horseshit and Bradley's use of this excessive monstrous prosthetic: "If Cooper was able to play the Elephant Man without any prosthetics, he should be able to play a Jewish man without any need for prosthetics - especially a Jewface".  Good point. When Chicken Coop Bradley portrayed the Elephant Man on Broadway, he wore no makeup.

Another Jewish actor, Joshua Malina who was in the West Wing, went on to add, "Were an actor to don a big hooked nose to play Shylock, or a random fictitious Jew I think I'd have a problem with the propagation of a well-worn stereotype".   

Twitter posters chimed in with their opinions with one poster writing, "Just look at a picture of the real Leonard Bernstein ...a big antisemitic prosthetic nose on Bradley Cooper was definitely not necessary".  Another poster wrote, "He (Bradley Cooper) is using this bullshit to win an Oscar".  

 

I know Bradley has been salivating for an Oscar since his reboot of a Star is Born inflated his ego into thinking he deserves a seat at the table with some of the greatest directors such as Orson Wells, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Frederico Fellini, or Ingmar Bergman. But I have news for him: it aint' going to happen. Those directors  have something he lacks which is vision and a deep understanding into the psyche of the characters actors portrayed. 

 

I'm not saying prosthetics should never be used in the portrayal of a character. It should be respectfully and tastefully used - especially if an actor is portraying a real life person (such as a biopic). However, too many times it cross the line into clownish, gimmicky, and insulting.

 

Here are a few examples of what I'm referring to: Goopy in Shallow Hal.  

 

 
And remember Nicole Kidman with that ridiculous crooked honker when she portrayed Virginia Woolf in The Hours? What an insult to the author (on the right).  BTW,  Bradley's vanity project movie will be released in theaters in September; and in November on Netflix.

 

 

Source: NBC News; Page Six; Daily Express. Photos: Miles Davis Project; The Telegraph; Lynette McNeill Studio /Paramount Pictures; Buzzfeed / Century Fox; Enigma Toys