Bradley Cooper has been accused of 'Jewface' but Hollywood's history with fake noses runs deeper

Bradley Cooper has faced an onslaught of criticism for wearing a prosthetic nose to play the late conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, in his latest film Maestro. "When it comes to this firestorm, I don't think that Bradley Cooper is antisemite — let's get this," says Dr Abramovich. " Nazi propaganda referenced a large, hooked nose as an identifying feature of a Jewish person, which Dr Abramovich says was used to "fan the flames of hatred and distrust towards the Jewish communities". Dr Rosewarne says that Cooper's "distinctively troublesome" use of prosthetics compounds the issue at hand. "There's quite a lot of angst about this idea of casting non-Jews in roles that are deeply and profoundly Jewish," he says, bringing it back to Cooper's casting decision.