Sarah Silverman says Hollywood has a ‘Jewface’ problem

New York Post ^ | October 4, 2021 | October 4, 2021

[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.'”

[Brown Deer]

HBO is claiming that Paul Drake was a black cop before he became Perry Mason's white PI sometime between 1931 and 1935.

[DazedVet]

Who will she allow to play Samy Davis Jr Black and Jewish?

[doorgunner69]

Had to find a clip of that, sure did not remember him.

[poinq]

Wow? just Wow!!

[cherry]

jews are way, way over represented in the entertainment, banking, business world......a little non jewish woman playing one role is a nothing burger...

[gundog]

[PhineasSpear]

She’s right; too many LEFT WING JEW FACES are the heads of studios and networks, and make up too many of the writers,producers, maybe directors,of extremely Leftist propaganda, propagandizing hateful, one sided, Anti WHITE,movies, TV shows, entire networks with nothing but such programming.