(The Jewish Chronicle) White-passing Jewish actors have made a fortune off of playing White roles — even putting on “Nazi Face” and playing “evil Nazis” — and earlier playing Black characters in Black Face — but now they are complaining when White actors put on “Jew Face” and play Jewish characters — roles that they claim only Jews can properly play so as not to promote negative Jewish stereotypes:
…A public debate is raging over whether non-Jewish actors should play Jewish characters. Some people hold that only Jewish actors should play Jewish roles; others believe that casting should be made according to acting talent alone, regardless of an actor’s ethnicity or religion.
A middle ground believe more Jewish roles should go to Jewish actors. In recent years, the Jewish community has gained confidence to comment on perceived mistakes in casting.
The issue is key to David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count book and television projects, dramaturg Adam Lenson spearheaded criticisms of the Falsettos production in 2019, and Maureen Lipman has been vocal in her criticism of Helen Mirren’s casting as Golda Meir in the forthcoming biopic. American actor-comedian Sarah Silverman has openly discussed the need for positive roles for Jewish women.
The concerted efforts of the media to treat other protected minorities with sensitivity and respect through diversity and representation drives have led many people to feel that the caution around some groups is not similarly exercised in relation to Jews.
The creative arts need a fresh perspective on Jewish life. For this reason, I have launched Casting Jewish, a consultancy service for film, television and theatre productions. I encourage and advise on alternatives to stereotypes, aiming to increase the accuracy of Jewish representations and ultimately hoping to reduce prejudice and antisemitism…
…I do not advocate that only Jewish actors should play Jewish roles. Such an approach is reductive, insensitive to the acting profession, and could lead to the dangerous perception that Jewish actors should only play Jewish roles.
Some roles might be better suited to a Jewish performer, depending on the actor and the role. The success of a performance is subjective, as audiences will respond differently to a character depending on their experience as a viewer.
A comment by playwright Patrick Marber in the Jewish Chronicle in January 2022 resonated with me. He defended casting according to talent rather than ethnicity, with the qualification
“I don’t like it when someone plays a Jew and gets it wrong.” This is a key phrase to untangle. What does it mean to get it wrong?To state the obvious, Jewishness is not necessarily perceptible — Jewish people do not look, sound, or behave a particular way. To suggest so is offensive.
Many of us have been told, “But you don’t look Jewish” an expression of prejudice likely inspired by stereotypical representations. A thorny issue for casting and acting is how to perform Jewishness: are there “markers” that can be emulated?
There is a double-edged sensitivity, as it is offensive to suggest that Jewishness is visible in someone’s appearance, but the idea that Jewish people can “pass” or move in society imperceptibly also carries negative connotations, that Jews are slippery or uncomplicatedly “white”.
It may be useful to others if we can easily be marked out (hence the yellow stars), but thankfully we now have a choice whether to show outward expressions of Jewish practice, such as through ritual or clothing.
Lipman explained her stance in the Guardian, arguing that when ethnicity drives the role, an actor of the same ethnicity embodies the character best.
This is especially tricky when a real person is represented, a case in point being On the Basis of Sex, the 2018 biopic of Ruth Bader Ginsburg starring British, non-Jewish Felicity Jones in the lead…
…Is there something irreplicable emoted by Jewish actors in Jewish roles?
Dustin Hoffman, when auditioning for the role of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, could not understand how to play a part initially offered to Robert Redford. Jewish director Mike Nichols told Hoffman that Benjamin was Jewish “on the inside”, and from there a career-defining performance emerged.
What can it mean to be Jewish on the inside, when there is nothing in a script to suggest a character is Jewish on the “outside”?
Although Hoffman later built a reputation as a versatile actor, as Benjamin he embodied a kind of Jewishness that met traditional American stereotypes of the 1960s familiar to audiences: he is short, dark, large-nosed, nervous, intellectual. Jewishness is often acted by playing into stereotypes and consolidating prejudice through repeating familiar tropes…
Stereotypical performances bear traces of previous depictions. Eddie Marsan is a non-Jewish actor often cast as Jewish characters (Sixty Six, Ridley Road, Back to Black) who reaffirm a stereotype that has been replicated on screen over decades…
…It created the shorthand by which screen and stage now speak, which does not reflect our complexity today. We have a nostalgic representational realm that replicates itself; a postmodern situation in which the copy has replaced the authentic.
Actors should avoid repeating negative stereotypes, but the language of representation requires signs and symbols which audiences recognise.
…Jewish characters are frequently written as lawyers or psychiatrists, perpetuating prejudice about class and privilege.
The real diversity of Jewish experience is not visible on screen and stage. Production teams should be consciously asking how they can make Jewish elements of script and performance accurate and sensitive.
Can we shift new representations away from repeating out-dated tropes and towards reflecting a diverse reality?
…Let’s work towards creating positive representations of today’s vibrant Jewish life.
Jews gaslight themselves into thinking that just because they can find a few examples of Jews who do not have stereotypical Jewish features that somehow there’s no such thing as a typical Jewish look — they are experts at arguing from the exception to the rule — with their mantra “Not All Jews!“
What this writer fails to either understand or acknowledge is that Jews have intentionally made the definition of a “Jew” as complicated and “fluid” as possible — and they have done this as a collective strategy to insulate themselves from all forms of collective criticism.
“Part of what has made Judaism brilliant throughout the centuries has been its full-on embrace of being simultaneously both an ethnicity and a religion — and neither.”
–“Who is a Jew?”, ELI Talks
Either or — both and neither — catch me if you can — if Jews can’t agree on what a Jew is, no wonder they struggle to even define the meaningless term “antisemitism.”
In truth, the vast majority of Jews are not religious — most are atheists — and yet few would doubt their “Jewishness” — and it is this perceived “ethnicity” that carries much more weight than does their participation in “religious” Judaism.
The Jews themselves broke any legitimate connection between ethnicity and religion when they began race mixing and then arbitrarily changed Israelite identity from the father to the mother to obscure this fact — and then allowing Khazar Turkic-Mongols to convert — which created the Ashkenazim.
Jewish identity is far more confusing than Father’s Day in an American ghetto.
The last hundred years of assimilation has brought unprecedented levels of inter-marriage with mostly White “gentiles” — which has watered down that once stereotypical Jewish “look” — a 2019 poll showed that because of this inter-marriage, Jews are becoming “whiter” — despite the fact that the U.S. is becoming more racial diverse — i.e., non-White.
It used to be much easier to identify a Jew just by looking at them — the difference between Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford couldn’t be greater — both in looks and temperament.
A more appropriate Jewish actor for the role of Benjamin Braddock would have been the white-passing Paul Newman — but the 42 year-old Newman was far too old at that time to play a college graduate.
The book The Graduate — upon which the film is based — is set in a thoroughly upper middle class White WASPish world — which explains Robert Redford as the first choice to play stoic Benjamin Braddock.
But the producers, director, and screenwriter were all Jewish — so they had the Jewish neurotic Dustin Hoffman put on “White Face” to play Braddock — in one of the most preposterous and daring casting choices in Hollywood history — yet the film was a huge success, especially among young, disaffected baby boomers who imagined themselves rebelling against the hypocritical Eisenhower conservatism of their parents.
In that sense, Dustin Hoffman’s success playing “White Face” — an obvious Jew playing an obvious WASP — was a watershed moment for Hollywood — they trained American movie audiences to ignore physical Jewishness — while giving Jews even greater confidence that they could successfully “pass” and be accepted as White.
And the 1960s also gave rise to movies about Jews — a subject that the Jewish studio heads had intentionally avoided — with rare exceptions such as 1959’s The Diary Of Anne Frank which starred the non-Jewish actress Millie Perkins who looked more like Audrey Hepburn than Anne Frank — doing so allowed White audiences to more easily identify with — and have sympathy for — the very Jewish looking Anne Frank.
No doubt the same consideration was behind the recent casting of the “gentile” Felicity Jones as the unattractive and stereotypically Jewish Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who makes the Wicked Witch of the East — played by the “gentile” Margaret Hamilton — in The Wizard of Oz look like a glamour queen.
Jews have bristled about this casting decision as an example of “Jew Face” — “gentiles” playing Jews — but American movie audiences don’t want to see an unattractive Jewess — like Emily Rossum — play such a role — and casting an “attractive” Jewish actress like Natalie Portman would be the equivalent of casting Felicity Jones — because audiences have far less sympathy for ugly leading “heroines” — Jewish or not.
Of course, Barbara Streisand was really the first overtly Jewish actress who played Jews successfully, first in Funny Girl and then in What’s Up Doc? — both comedies — but then she starred in the 1973 blockbuster melodrama The Way We Were — about the highly unlikely romance between the handsome WASP Robert Redford and the quirky, frumpy, unattractive Jewish communist, Barbara Streisand.
What most people don’t know is that the screenplay treatment for The Way We Were was written by producer Arthur Laurents — a Jewish homosexual — who was obsessed with gentile “golden boys” — and Streisand’s character is based on himself — while Redford’s character is based on his real life “gentile” gay partner.
Perhaps this is why The Way We Were has aged so poorly and becomes less convincing and more cringe-worthy with each passing year — because it is based on a Jewish homosexual fantasy — but in the real world, the Robert Redfords of the world would never be attracted to the Barbara Streisands of the world — except in the envious fantasies of the most Jewish of Jews.
Jewish producer Zvi Howard Roseman — a friend of Laurents — explained this Jewish sexual obsession with handsome, unattainable WASPs:
“The Jew is the dynamic one, and when you fall in love with a vapid shegetz [a male shiksa], it’s because he’s the one you want to be, the beautiful one. That’s what attracts some Jews to Gentiles, the vapidity. There’s no drama.”
So there you have it — straight from the horse’s mouth — Jewish producers and directors continue to cast attractive and accomplished “gentile” actors even in roles meant for Jews — using “Jew Face” — because Jews envy and want to possess what they can’t have — White beauty.
And aside from narcissistic Jewish navel gazers, most Jews would rather see an attractive “gentile” on the big screen portraying a Jew than one of their own — after all, Hollywood has always been based on Jewish fantasies that they can be “just like us” — and desired by us.
In fact, Jews have a long history of also doing “Nazi Face” — Jewish actors playing “Nazis” is completely acceptable and “convincing” — but White actors cannot be trusted to play a Jew with the proper “nuance” and “complexity” to satisfy Jews who can’t even define what a Jew is.
Jewface?
So, have plastic surgery on my ears so that they point to 10 O’Clock instead on 12?
Adjust my eyebrows so that they have a pyramid shape?
Ensure my lower lip sticks out more than my upper one?
Have more surgery on my nose so it’s crooked and the tip is lower than the base?
AND how can I manage to get that sloping Hittite forehead?
Cost a lot in special effects to make me look like a hideous jew LOL
You have to understand that it isn’t so much the fact that non-jews are playing jews as it is that non-jews are playing jews that they think were wonderful examples of their hideous race.
Ginsburg was a worthless whore, obviously, but the jews THINK she was some sort of role model for “powerful women” thus they’re offended that a non-jew would play her onscreen. But if the jew in question is, say, a criminal, like Jordan Belfort, THEN the jews are very quick to have blond-haired blue-eyed Yid shill Leonardo DiCaprio portray their misdeeds on film so as to give the ILLUSION that said misdeeds are being committed by “white people”.
Never mind that Belfort’s book, which the movie was based upon, goes on and on about his jewishness this, his jewishness that (is there anything a kike loves more than self-promotion?) yet when Terence Winter wrote the screenplay of The Wolf of Wall Street’s disgusting life he PURPOSELY left all vestiges of Belfort’s “proud” jewish upbringing out of the film, no doubt with much input from his jewess film producer slattern of a wife, Rachel Winter.
The only person willing to cast jews in films about their enormous malfeasance is Oliver Stone who gave the nod to Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf in his Wall Street series. But those were (a) jews doing white face and (b) movies about FICTIONAL characters so no harm no foul says Schlomo. Gordon Gekko is A-OK!
Interesting and important article of the jew dilemma. But Hoolywood has always been for the satanic jew a trap for beautiful , white women , not to speak of ne’r do well , white men. They use the women to breed jew, a morbid genetic that gives them perpetuity and defies nature’s laws.
Many of these young, white women , will suffer their inability to become jew and are not saved through a transformation . The disillusionment is an experience they have no moral foundation to conceive and so suddenly kill themselves . Just a little by-product of jew eugenic and the malignant film industry .
But Felo de se , the choice escape from this jewish world , has become another enrichment of English language. It is however not always accepted as retribution for trading with the devil .
Suicide has become a transitive verb . And the question of another mysterious death in Jewlywood is rudely interrupted by the murderer , who writes the “victims” biography . Marilyn Monroe is one of many, who are victims of integrating with SAtan’s children .
In marriage or the perfunctory , amoral fornication, the jew religion , they become a neurotic prostitute from these libidinous bastards, always clothed in unassailable righteousness . But always , the merciless opportunistic predator.
Jew is obvious . They can not be concealed in cinematic transfiguration . A few words as script , the apostrophe interdicts and the obsession with them self and their abysmal purpose preempts the honest dramatization of another personality . There is no absolute reality nor Truth to the jew . They defy both .
All drama or films is saturated with propaganda to sell the long, suffering , innocent , victim of the host’s “persecution” . This is the eternal jew problem of concealing thier satanic identity living in a white world , once a Christian heritage.
Ultimately, the war against Christ Jesus will be exposed . Their triumph is our humiliation. The lie is thier religion and the word , their cunning and merciless refusal to reveal thier own identity as the inexpiable and impenitent monster that , they are.
Be it to our shame or glory , that this obvious provocation with every one can not be answered without the eponymous irrational , suppressed scream . The violent, racist ,antisemite can not keep silent , though once they were stones. And behold the execrable , anti jew is born .
The white suffer from the weakness of inability to discriminate and resolve to be who they are. They become the willing victim of this imposter , a self glorifying liar , that denies and now forbids the perception of the absolute Truth. The culture infected by this insidious parasite paradoxically will not even experience the tragedy of its own destruction .
Hypothetical question, please forgive the ignorance if this has been answered in another article…
Would someone be accepted as a christian if they were raised christian by christians parents whose parents were also christian, but one of the parents of their parent’s parents (their grandparents in other words) was ethnically jewish but never identified as such, married a christian woman, read the bible and raised them to believe in Jesus? Would they be accepted into the congregation, assuming they loved Jesus and kept his commandments?
Thanks in advance
Offlentig …………..
Pretty vague question.
First — “What Congregation” are you referring to? Many churches accept all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons. I don’t believe CFT believes themselves to be a “Congregation” in any official capacity. They allow pretty much anyone to comment here as long as they stick to certain rules of decency and civility.
Second — You say one of the Grandparents was an ethnic jew. On what proof was he an ethnic jew? What are the qualifications of an ethnic jew?
One of the questions we debate here on a regular basis is —- who is a jew and when does one become one? Who is the first jew and how did he/she become one? Etc., etc.
In my own life, I dated a girl whom I assumed was a jew because her father and mother were jews. 10 years later when her father died, in his will he expressed to his daughter that she was adopted from what they called — “Gentile Parents”. But he wanted her to convert and become a religious jew. That was his wish for her.
I was in high school so I was naive to all of this. I did notice that she looked nothing like her parents, but that never entered into my mind at the time. But she was White — blonde hair, blue eyes.
If this is a serious question — like you really need to know an exact answer for whatever reason, you will need to offer a bit more information.
What is the ultimate objective of your question? Are you asking whether our Creator in Heaven will accept such a person???
Great Question —– we just need a bit more information.
Really appreciate the response, West.
The one mentioned in Deuteronomy 23:2-
“A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.”
In light of this verse, would such an individual be accepted in God’s eyes?
Ethnic in the sense that they have such DNA from the grandparent, but were never raised to follow the religion. Let’s say they had “prussian jew” DNA for example…
Hope this helps to clarify.
Thanks
Offlentig …………………..
Greetings. I noticed no one else wanted to lend their opinion as to your question.
And I think the reason why is —– “Who really wants to play God?”
I sure don’t.
You refer to the Israelite “Congregation”. That was a specific place during the times of when the Israelites were a Structured Society.
Can we say that “Congregation” is a Spiritual parallel to Eternal Rest??? I don’t know.
And quite honestly, I don’t want to know.
This doesn’t mean that I support race-mixing. Or even integration. But what it does mean is that I can’t make that judgment call about someone’s Eternal Destination.
Like I also said —- I don’t know enough information about that particular family. We would need to see actual photographs. Just saying someone was an Ethnic Jew 3 Generations ago doesn’t necessarily prove anything.
What is a Jew? It is somewhat of a Rhetorical question, but one that requires serious thought. We know what a religious jew is. I’m not asking that question. But what is a physical jew?
What we do know, is that those who call themselves “jews” today (modern jewry) are not pure blooded Israelites circa 1 AD.
But you never know ……………. there could be a small, tiny percentage of modern jews who think they are jews, but they very well could be pure blooded Adamites.
I gave you my story. My girlfriend literally thought she was a jew, until she found out that she was adopted. Ironically ……………… she is now married to a real ethnic jew and she is a religious jew. Weird how that one worked.
I know this doesn’t help you answer your ultimate question.
All I can say is that we have to leave it up to God. He is the Righteous and Fair Judge.
If per say you know someone who is like 98% White with the possibility of 2% non-adamic blood —- my first thought is — it wasn’t his or her fault. Second — do they actually love God with all their heart and love their neighbor as themselves? Do they truly love and follow the commands of Jesus?
You see my problem is, that I am finding it very hard to find White People who honor God with their heart and not just their lips. Let alone trying to figure out what God will do with non-whites who claim they believe in Jesus Christ.
Luke 18:8 says —- “When the Son of Man returns; will He really find Faith on the Earth”?
The question is NO.
The Road is Narrow and Few will Walk it.
Lastly, I will repeat — God is Just and Righteous. I trust His decisions on that final day.
Peace to you Oflentig.
One of the worst performances of a Jew doing White Face was Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye” in 1973. Embarrassing — he even does an impression of Al Jolson doing Black Face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYheZweypk
Gould was married to Barbara Streisand. They had one child, Jason Gould, a failed actor who couldn’t look more Jewish:
https://people.com/music/barbra-streisand-son-jason-gould-new-music-ross-dad-friends/
The face painting, name changing jews have exhausted their lack of creativity, and now Hollywood is in a downward spiral that will never be reversed. When Whites inevitably fled from the jew Scourge of the Movies, the jew tried to patch the Hole with blacks, fags and trannies, but it just wasn’t enough.
Movie theaters that have been abandoned en masse by Whites are now ghost towns, or turn into nasty she boon weave-pulling brawls, to the horror of the remnant of employees. Even Netflix movies at home has now become an utter failure , compliments of the woke satanic jew.
Thankfully, the mixed mongrel jewish pedophile (((producers))) who have disgraced the world with their pedophilic content and the jewish actors and actresses like Gwyneth Paltrowitz (see (((early Life)))) have been abysmally rejected and forgotten. Now we can move on and reject the (((internet ))) and (((government))) , whether our dear Jesus’ return is imminent or not.
Thanks for another great article, CFT!
CFT is impressively consistent and of the highest quality.
Wow, how ironic it is that these fake Jews prefer to cast real White Israelites in their movies.
God always has the last laugh.
Interesting how Jews see attractive gentiles as “vapid” and “no drama”. Meaning, Jews are drama junkies, and relationships between two Jews are fraught with tension and conflict.
Jewish women dominated the feminist movement, complaining, demanding “equal rights”, etc. Imagine being married to a Jewish woman who is never satisfied, thinks she’s brilliant, competitive, never shuts up….no wonder they are attracted to quiet, “simple” gentiles.
This brings to mind the “Shiksappeal” episode of Seinfeld, which baffles me as in it a rabbi explains that all jews are infatuated with (((Elaine))) because she has shiksa features, even though her actress looks quite Jewish and her character is canonically a jewess in the show.
is it the equivalent of blacks/asians being attracted to lighter skinned blacks/asians?
I’ve known many Jews through out my life, and many of them very well, and none of them dated Jewish women. None of them. And the ones that got married, married non-Jews.
And mind you, I lived in New York City for many years, so that tells you a lot about what appeals to Jews the most, and it isn’t their fellow Jews.
Reason is many jews just want break out of their jewish mind programming (jew MK ULTRA) . they want to be normal people like all goyim . but they like to be promoted in jobs by their wide connected mafia and take their financial advice .
From the days of vaudeville to Hollywood, which replaced that genre, Jews have been at the forefront of wearing Blackface & then showing their character to be some kind of doofus.
Even the Black actors that were in those movies were showed as morons, which became big-eyed when seeing a watermelon or fried chicken.
Now the Jews want to push all that hatred onto Whites & blame us for the past injustices that they created & performed.
AHahahaahaahahah this is the true nature of the Jew. No shame. No morals. No honor. No God. No raison d’être.