Bradley Cooper Finally Weighs in on His Fake Nose in ‘Maestro’

Bradley Cooper might’ve caught a lot of flack for the fake nose he wears to play conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, but speaking about it for the first time with Gayle King on CBS Mornings, he said the response didn’t surprise him.

“Nothing catches me off guard,” Cooper told King on Tuesday. “You never know what’s going to happen.”

Last spring, when first look images emerged of Cooper in his Bernstein make-up, controversy bubbled as some argued that the heavy prosthetics used to transform the non-Jewish Cooper into a better likeness of the Jewish composer were inappropriate. The fake nose became the nexus of these critiques.

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