Leonard Bernstein's Children Defend Bradley Cooper

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The Children of Leonard Bernstein have spoken out about the backlash. Bradley Cooper has faced for the first trailer of his film, Maestro where he played Bernstein. Some have criticized the use of a prosthetic nose on Bradley Cooper to depict Bernstein with some saying it's a Hollywood stereotype calling it quote Jew face. However, Bernstein's three Children took to a long statement on Twitter to defend Bradley Cooper. They said this quote, Bradley Cooper included the three of us along every step of his amazing journey as he made his film about our father, adding Bradley chose to use makeup to amplify his resemblance and we're perfectly fine with that. We're also certain that our dad would have been fine with it as well. And quote Maestro is set to premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival on September 2nd.