Bradley Cooper finally addresses his Maestro nose
Cooper's use of a prosthetic nose to play Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein sparked controversy ahead of the film's release
Despite widespread backlash and claims that he was perpetuating “Jewface,” the necessity of wearing an enlarged prosthetic to play legendary composer Leonard Bernstein was as plain to Bradley Cooper as the nose on his face.
Three months after the first trailer for Cooper’s upcoming biopic Maestro initially revealed the nose—and the controversy surrounding it—the multi-hyphenate is breaking his silence about the whole thing. “My nose is very similar to Lenny’s, actually, so the prosthetic is actually like a silk sheet,” Cooper said on today’s episode of CBS Mornings. “I thought, ‘Maybe we don’t need to do it because we could take down time of prep,’ but it’s all about balance, and, you know, my lips are nothing like Lenny’s, and my chin. And so we had that, and it just didn’t look right [without the prosthetic].”