Is This The Face Of A Costa Rican-Born Actor, Or Maybe We Shouldn't Just Be Side-Eying Bradley Cooper!
In all the uproar about Bradley Cooper's prosthetic "Jewface" nose for his portrayal of Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming biopic, shouldn't we also be talking about Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, Leonard's wife? She was a noted actor and activist, born in Costa Rica and raised in Chile by her Costa Rican mother and American-born father. Pictured above is not Felicia, but Carey Mulligan, a UK actress of Irish and Welsh descent. So here we have a part-Latina actor born and raised in one of the largest Hispanic regions outside of the U.S, who later married a first generation American Jewish composer born of Russian Jewish immigrants. And they're being portrayed by a UK-born Caucasian actor, and, in Bradley's case, a Caucasian actor of Irish-Italian descent born in America. Should we side-eye this or not? Yes, there's been many non-Jews who've portrayed Jews, from Cillian Murphy in the current "Oppenheimer" going and all the way back to Holl