self-titled podcast after it was announced WandaVision actor Kathryn Hahn had been cast as Joan Rivers in an upcoming biopic.“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.“One could argue, for instance, that a Gentile [a non-Jew] playing Joan Rivers correctly would be doing what is actually called ‘Jewface.’”Silverman defined “Jewface” as “when a non-Jew portrays a Jew with the Jewishness front and center, often with makeup or changing of features, big fake nose, all the New York-y or Yiddish-y inflection.”She added: “In a time when the importance of representation is seen as so essential and so front and center,.
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