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Sarah Silverman says Hollywood has a ‘Jewface’ problem
New York Post ^ | October 4, 2021 | October 4, 2021

Posted on 10/04/2021 1:26:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Sarah Silverman called out Hollywood’s tendency to cast non-Jewish actors to play Jewish characters, referring to the practice as “Jewface.”

The comedian, 50, pointed to Kathryn Hahn as the most recent example after the Catholic-raised actress, 48, was tapped to portray the late Joan Rivers, who was Jewish, in an upcoming limited series.

“There’s this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews, and not just playing people who happen to be Jewish but people whose Jewishness is their whole being,” Silverman said in Thursday’s episode of her eponymous podcast, adding, “One could argue, for instance, that a Gentile [a non-Jew] playing Joan Rivers correctly would be doing what is actually called ‘Jewface.'”

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To: sphinx

Yeah, she’s drink tweeting. Again…

And the real thinking come out every time


61 posted on 10/04/2021 2:59:55 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: max americana

Because there are so few Jewish people working in Hollywood?


62 posted on 10/04/2021 3:01:22 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: FreeReign

“So then Jewish actors can’t play non Jewish characters?”

Of course not. That would be goyface.


63 posted on 10/04/2021 3:16:42 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Fido969
"Fake Indian. "

Yup. Isn't he a Sicilian immigrant?

64 posted on 10/04/2021 3:17:16 PM PDT by blam
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To: monkeyshine

I think I read Wallach wrote the G,B, and the ugly


65 posted on 10/04/2021 3:23:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: nickcarraway

So what about Goyface?


66 posted on 10/04/2021 3:25:13 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: nickcarraway

The play, ‘Hamilton’?


67 posted on 10/04/2021 3:25:53 PM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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To: monkeyshine

And, he was hung.


68 posted on 10/04/2021 3:28:13 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: karnage
... And Susan Hayward played his Tartar Woman.

I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.

69 posted on 10/04/2021 3:28:30 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: Dr. Sivana

... and they all got cancer ... supposedly from radioactive sand ...


70 posted on 10/04/2021 3:37:10 PM PDT by x
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To: outofsalt

Ha! Very well said! His wife was lovely. Him, typical Leftist.


71 posted on 10/04/2021 3:42:00 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: nickcarraway

it’s called ‘acting’, Sarah

a straight portraying a gay, or an actor portraying a murderer or a priest, is acting.
A gay, murderer or priest portraying themselves except with made up lines, is not acting.


72 posted on 10/04/2021 3:48:48 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: DarrellZero

Seriously. Will LeBron complain about not enough blacks in the NBA?...


73 posted on 10/04/2021 4:03:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Hollywood has a habit of assigning flaming Anti-American leftists to the roles of patriotic heroes, too.


74 posted on 10/04/2021 4:06:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DAC21

Different Jewish whore.


75 posted on 10/04/2021 4:06:39 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Is Whoopi Goldberg a black comedian playing a Jew or a Jew playing a black comedian? Either way, it’s cultural misappropriation.lol


76 posted on 10/04/2021 4:33:22 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: nickcarraway

Jews pretty much founded Hollywood.


77 posted on 10/04/2021 4:34:26 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: FreeReign

Jewish actors have played non-jewish roles for decades


78 posted on 10/04/2021 4:35:23 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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To: doorgunner69

Eli Wallach was the bandito Calvera in “The Magnificent Seven” as well.


79 posted on 10/04/2021 4:54:04 PM PDT by Right Brigade
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Yes. Exactly my point.


80 posted on 10/04/2021 5:50:02 PM PDT by FreeReign
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