Mayim Bialik is reflecting on a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch that mocked her nose with a prosthetic nearly 30 years ago — as well as the recent Bradley Cooper 'Maestro' controversy.
The actress and "Jeopardy" host discussed her "undeniably Jewish" nose — and the recent Bradley Cooper Maestro prosthetic controversy — in an essay.inspired complicated feelings."The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious," she recalls, referring to Melanie Hutsell, who played Blossom in the sketch alongside."But. She wore a prosthetic nose.
Bialik continues: "I don't know if it was significantly larger than my real nose and I don't care to remember. I remember that it struck me as odd. And it confused me. No one else on the show was parodied for their features. In MAD magazine, everyone is caricatured, but in this rendition of parody, it was just me that was singled out. More specifically, it was my nose."
Bialik goes on to explain why she didn't publicly address the sketch until now. "I never thought to talk about it and mostly I tried to forget it," she writes. "I hoped no one noticed. All of my friends at high school watched, Bialik thought it was appropriate to weigh in on actors using makeup to portray Jewish people.
"Girls all over the world used to tell me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on TV before they saw me on," Bialik continues. "Many said they knew I was Jewish and it made them proud to be. That was so touching to me, and it still is… I wonder how those girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comically prosthetic nose. I wonder if that's different from Bradley Cooper playing a famous person.
Bialik concludes with multifaceted, honest reflections. "I've had many conversations with myself about my nose in the past 40 years. I have not always loved it, but I also have never wanted to change it," she writes. "My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am as well. Is it because of my nose? Perhaps. But I don't have to know because we will always be one and the same.
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