{"id":2002885,"date":"2023-08-16T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bradley-cooper-defended-by-leonard-bernsteins-family-amid-jewface-accusations\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:05:46","slug":"bradley-cooper-defended-by-leonard-bernsteins-family-amid-jewface-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bradley-cooper-defended-by-leonard-bernsteins-family-amid-jewface-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s family supports Bradley Cooper amidst &#8216;Jewface&#8217; allegations."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbradley-cooper-defended-by-leonard-bernsteins-family-amid-jewface-accusations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002885&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Bernstein Family Defends Bradley Cooper&#8217;s Portrayal of \u2062Leonard \u200cBernstein \u2063in Film<\/h2>\n<p>The family of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein \u200bhas come \u2064to \u2062the aid \u2064and \u200cdefense of Bradley Cooper, who will portray Bernstein in a film later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It happens\u200c to be true that Leonard Bernstein had a nice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-pageant-for-botox-use\/\" title=\"Dozens of Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant for Botox Use\">big nose<\/a>,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;Bradley\u2064 chose to use \u200bmakeup to amplify his resemblance,\u200d and we\u2019re perfectly fine with that. We\u2019re\u200d also certain that\u200c our\u2064 dad would have been fine\u2063 with \u200bit as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cooper, the director \u2064and \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-daily-wire-poll-most-americans-oppose-oscars-diversity-requirements\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Daily Wire Poll: Most Americans Oppose Oscars\u2019 Diversity Requirements\">lead actor<\/a> \u200din the film Maestro, has been criticized for his choice\u2064 to wear a prosthetic nose in the film,\u2063 with some accusing \u200bhim of using &#8220;Jewface&#8221; since Cooper is not Jewish. However, Bernstein&#8217;s three\u200d children, Jamie, \u2062Alexander, and Nina, issued a statement \u200bonline to address\u2062 the\u200b controversy and express\u2064 their support for Cooper.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;At all times during the making \u200bof \u200dthis film, we could feel the\u2062 profound respect and yes, the love that Bradley \u200cbrought \u2064to his portrait of Leonard Bernstein \u2062and his wife, our mother Felicia,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We\u2064 feel so fortunate to have had \u200bthis experience with Bradley, and we can&#8217;t wait for\u200b the world to see his creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u200d Bernstein family emphasized that Cooper included them in every\u200b step of the process \u200dand\u200b that any complaints regarding his portrayal come across as &#8220;disingenuous\u200b attempts to \u2062bring a \u200csuccessful person down a notch.&#8221; They also noted that their own father had\u200d often been subjected to \u200dsimilar attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s\u2063 involvement in the film came \u200bafter \u200bhe won a rights battle \u200cto play Bernstein against Jake Gyllenhaal. \u2063Gyllenhaal, who\u200b is of Jewish descent, expressed his desire to play Bernstein\u200b but acknowledged that sometimes\u2064 things don&#8217;t work out in \u2062the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, Maestro, is set to be released in select theaters this November and will later\u2064 be available on\u2062 Netflix \u200dstarting December 20. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bradley-cooper-defended-by-leonard-bernsteins-family-amid-jewface-accusations\/\" title=\"Leonard Bernstein's family supports Bradley Cooper amidst 'Jewface' allegations.\">streaming service referred<\/a> to the Bernstein family&#8217;s statement in response \u200bto the controversy.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s family supports Bradley Cooper, defending his portrayal of the composer in the upcoming film Maestro. Cooper, the film&#8217;s director and lead actor, faced backlash for wearing a prosthetic nose, accused of &#8220;Jewface.&#8221; The Bernstein family stands by Cooper amidst the controversy surrounding his artistic choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}