When Halle Berry appeared on Leno yesterday, she made an apparent anti-semitic remark, one that wasn’t part of the televised program.
The Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie “Things We Lost in the Fire,” was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her computer using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.
According to one audience member, “She introduced the first photo by saying, ‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!’ - it was a picture of her with a huge, distorted nose. No one laughed, and Jay nervously said, ‘I’m glad you said that and not me.’ When the show aired, they cut out her ‘Jewish’ comment and added a laugh track to the bit.”
Another guest in the audience told us, “If you watch the clip, you can see Halle saying the word ‘Jewish,’ though obviously there is no audio. NBC covered her a - -. Ms. Berry should know how unbelievably inappropriate her comment was . . . She should be ashamed of herself.”
Personally, I don’t believe she was being anti-semitic as much as she used a poor choice of words. In this day and age, you have to be careful about poking fun at any race or religion, even if your intentions weren’t to hate.
Berry, who even offered to call Page Six’s source and apologize in person, said, “It was just a lighthearted segment that was meant to make fun of myself. There was a picture where I said I looked like Monica Lewinsky and one where I said I looked like Jay. It was just supposed to be a silly segment. I am so sorry, and I apologize.”
4 Responses to “Halle Berry makes an anti-semitic remark on Leno”
I don’t consider that offensive, but in this day and age, but many would. Context, people, Context.
I wonder how lighthearted and silly it would be if a white girl colored herself brown and said “here is where I look like Halle Berry”
How insensitive
I’d find it funny.
but I’ve been told I have bad taste.
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