In talking to other Jews about these casting instances, it’s clear that there’s an ineffable quality missing from these performances.
My grandmother told blue jokes set at retirement homes, and my aunt carefully preserved the joke in her brisket recipe. By the time I was ten, I could identify lines from Mel Brooks, Groucho Marx, and Henny Youngman, and sing along to Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler without missing a beat. Steven Spielberg Concerned Antisemitism Is ‘No Longer Lurking but Standing Proud’Īs a Jewish person with family ties to New York, I grew up hearing the accents, cadences, and Yiddish phrases that inform so much of the Jewish sense of humor and cultural identity. There’s also Steve Carrell in “The Patient,” Rachel McAdams in “Disobedience,” Felicity Jones in “On the Basis of Sex,” almost everyone in “Transparent,” Oscar Isaac in “Scenes from a Marriage,” Helen Mirren in “Golda,” and Daniel Craig in “Defiance.” Maisel.” In “Shiva Baby,” the biggest surprise is that Dianna Agron is Jewish and Rachel Sennott is not. We’ve watched Adam Driver go hard in “BlacKkKlansman” and Rachel Brosnahan bring that shiksa sparkle to “The Marvelous Mrs. (A representative from the Anti-Defamation League declined to comment for this piece, though they may have bigger fish to fry right now.) There are many examples of what Sarah Silverman called “Jewface” on her podcast last year. But is it OK to admit that when Michelle Williams rattles off a “dahlink” to her brood and Anthony Hopkins instructs his grandson to “be a mensch” in his Welsh brogue, things are a little weird, nu? There’s no getting around it: talking about representation in movies these days is a sticky, tricky subject.
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