Actor Bradley Cooper is facing mounting backlash over his apparent use of a prosthetic nose in his depiction of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming movie “Maestro.”
The biographical romance, which Cooper co-wrote, produced and directed, tells the story of Bernstein, who famously co-created “West Side Story,” with a focus on the composer’s 25-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre.
After Netflix dropped the trailer for the film on Tuesday, many social media users were quick to notice the change in Cooper’s appearance, with some branding his apparent use of a prosthetic nose as antisemitic.
“Bradley Cooper is putting himself in an insanely large prosthetic nose to play a Jewish man in Maestro and we’re all just supposed to act like that’s cool and normal?” one commenter wrote in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Just looked up a picture of the real Leonard Bernstein…. the big antisemitic prosthetic nose on Bradley Cooper was definitely not necessary…” another social media user wrote.
“I saw Bradley cooper play the elephant man with no prosthetics on Broadway,” another social media user said. “But then he plays a Jew and decides he needs a huge nose?”
“He’s the director too so don’t blame anyone else,” they added.
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