Mayim Bialik ‘felt ashamed’ over ‘SNL’ mocking her nose with prosthetic
nypost.com1994 “SNL” parody that mocked the show at the time involved a prosthetic nose. The skit saw actress Melanie Hutsell playing Bialik as her character, Blossom Russo.In an essay for Variety, the “Big Bang Theory” alum penned: “The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious.”“But.
She wore a prosthetic nose. In order to truly convey that she was ‘Blossom,’ she wore a fake, big nose,” Bialik added.She went on in her candid article: “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,” she wrote.She revealed that she felt embarrassed by the portrayal of her facial features — and how it represented “Jewface.”The term has come to reference how it negatively characterizes stereotypical portrayals of Jewish people in art.
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