Sarah Silverman Says Hollywood Has A Problem With “Jewface”

VSActress Sarah Silverman says Hollywood tends to choose non-Jewish actors and actresses for Jewish roles.

Silverman, 50, called the practice “Jewface” in an episode of his podcast Thursday. She pointed out that Catholic actress Kathryn Hahn was chosen to play the late Joan Rivers, who was Jewish, on an upcoming show. She also cited Felicity Jones playing the role of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, among other examples.

“There’s this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews, and not just people who happen to be Jewish, but people whose Jewishness is their whole being,” Silverman said. “You could argue, for example, that a Gentil playing Joan Rivers properly would do what is actually called ‘Jewface’.

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“It’s defined as when a non-Jew portrays a Jew with Jewishness in the foreground, often with makeup or changes of features, a big fake nose, all the New York or Yiddish-y inflection,” she added. “And in a time when the importance of representation is seen as so essential and so central, why is ours constantly being violated, even today, in the thick of it?”

Silverman supported female Jewish figures who are “courageous or [deserve] love “are” never played by a Jew “.

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She also pointed to common anti-Semitic themes such as “Jews run Hollywood” and “Jews are rich” as tropes that make “people very rightly unfriendly to Jews.”

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