Newsflash, not casting a Jewish actress in a Jewish role is antisemitism. Not casting a Jewish actress in a Jewish role and then having them erase the Jewishness from the movie is antisemitism. Being HAPPY about the erasure and saying any talk of her being Jewish is a throwaway line, is antisemitism. It IS a big deal. And it DOES matter because thatâs literally who Nora is. The same way Henry is Blond, or British, or white, or Alex is Mexican, or Amy is Trans. These make up their characters and people would be pissed if any of this changed, yet are fine with it for Nora, even though being Jewish is WHO SHE IS. You donât have to act Jewish to be Jewish. Sheâs acting like sooooo many Jewish girls by literally doing nothing.
Hollywood has made everyone think that âShe was right for the roleâ is a valid argument about anything. Itâs not fucking true. The best person for a role of a minority character is an actor of that minority! Always! Rachel has been proven to not be Jewish. She is proven to be a Christian. Is she talented? Fuck yeah. Should she have been cast as Nora? No. Nora, book Nora, is Jewish. They seemed to have no problem casting others according to the book, so not casting a Jewish actress was deliberate. Because they couldâve cast one and they didnât. That was a choice. They found niche actors to hit the niche characters, yet⌠Not for the Jew. Thatâs whatâs antisemitic.
Think with me for a second here. Imagine if Nora was Asian (letâs say⌠Chinese, just random). They mention it once when describing her character (âSleek, black hair.â) and then later on when sheâs going home for Chinese New Year. Is she not Chinese any other time? Would it be okay to cast someone who isnât Asian, because itâs only mentioned once? NO. Obviously not.
âonly mentioned onceâ There were A LOT of things in this book only mentioned once, yet for everyone else, that seems to have been enough. Yet, not for the ONLY JEW.
Jews do NOT need to prove their worth. They do not need to perform to be Jewish. I wake up in the morning, I take a piss, I eat some cereal, I go to school, I come home, I go to bed. Guess what, I was Jewish that entire time. Nora was Jewish on every page, like it or not.
Them erasing that is erasing an ethnicity, a race, a culture. If youâre Jewish and youâre okay with that⌠You should think about what that means in a larger context. People are happy about not having a Jew on screen, people would be just as happy not having a Jew as a neighbor, as a friend, as a politician, as whatever. Youâve been convinced that itâs okay to not have a Jew onscreen, because thatâs what youâre used to. I know, seeing black people onscreen instead of white guys in blackface was probably a bit of a shock too (sarcasm)â but things change. Itâs literally called Jewface, to play a character as a non-Jew. Thatâs the literal term. If youâre okay with that⌠You should do some thinking. If youâre okay with not having a Jewish Nora, I wonder what youâre thoughts wouldâve been on a non-Hispanic Alex. What if he was a different ethnicity? What if a white guy could play him better? Why are all others worth more than a Jewish life? God, it feels like the â40s
Tell me how the ethnicity of the bodyguards are relevant, or the color of Henryâs hair, or the brand of ice cream the boys ate, or the name of the dog, or that thereâs even a dog in the first place, or any of that. Tell me how any of that is relevant to the story, but Nora being Jewish isnât since itâs her literal character the same way that Alex is Mexican, Henry is British, and etc etc etc. Because they kept ALL of that the same (plus other stuff I didnât feel like listing), yet when it comes to the ethnicity of a Jewish girl⌠suddenly THAT isnât relevant, yet a brand of fucking ice cream is. Think about that.
also, hereâs my thoughts on CMQ. I think theyâre a great writer, I think they donât understand Jews. They went to a Christian school, they obviously werenât exposed to Jews (or at least many) during that education. CMQ likely believes Jews to just be white followers of a religion, which isnât true at all. So they accidentally wrote this incredible Jewish character, whoâs Jewishness doesnât define her like so many Jews in books/media⌠but then didnât know how or if they should fight for that onscreen, because if you only think about Jews as white followers of a religion, wouldnât someone more visibly diverse seem better? Obviously Jews arenât white, some are white passing, some are Jews of color, there are Jews from all over the world (not just Europe! Not at all!) But I guarantee that CMQ didnât and maybe still doesnât know that. She wrote a pretty classic, 22, non-religious, ethnically Jewish girl. But CMQ, due to lack of Jews in the media and overall Jewish education, may not have known enough about Jews to fight for them to have representation⌠That doesnât make it okay. And her approval of casting/script came when they were facing a lot of backlash. She couldnât say it was bad even if she wanted to. But, overall, CMQ likely didnât fight for Jews because sheâs undereducated about them. What would help? MORE JEWS (diverse Jews) IN MOVIES BEING NORMAL
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