He composed a sincere apology.
“I wasn’t expecting it to happen,” Hiro, 54, told press at the Venice Film Festival of the accusations of antisemitism. “I feel sorry if I hurt some people’s feelings. I wanted to portray Lenny as real as possible.”
“If Bradley Cooper is able to play the Elephant Man without any prosthetics, he should be able to play a Jewish man without any need for prosthetics — especially a ‘Jewish’ nose,” Jewish actress Tracy-Ann Oberman, 57, told Page Six.
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