What’s in a nose? That Bradley Cooper wears a prosthetic proboscis to play acclaimed Jewish conductor Leonard Bernstein in the forthcoming film Maestro, is dividing people. Indeed, it divides me.

My first reaction to clips in which Cooper plays Bernstein as a young man was that the prosthetic looked like a racist caricature: it seemed excessively large compared with the actual composer’s conk. I wasn’t alone in my view – many others took to social media with the same complaint.

Financial Times