Bradley Cooper weighs in on Maestro prosthetic nose controversy

The co-writer and director of the biopic, in which he stars as composer Leonard Bernstein, explains he didn't look right' without the prosthetic

Bradley Cooper has weighed in on controversy surrounding the use of a prosthetic nose in the film Maestro, in which he portrays the legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein.

After initial photos and a teaser for the film were released in August, some critics decried Cooper's decision to don a prosthetic nose to star as Bernstein, who was Jewish. Daniel Fienberg, the Hollywood Reporter's chief TV critic, called it problematic" and described the film as ethnic cosplay". Others called the decision antisemitic, or used the derogatory term jewface".