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Could they not find a Jew in Hollywood to play Moses?


You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find one, but yet they didn't.

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Well if you cast Edgerton as Ramses you might as well have Bale as Moses. Nothing about this movie worked for me.

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Is that really necessary? Should all Jews be played only by Jews, Christians by Christians and so on?

Or should we let actors pretend to be something they're not occasionally, otherwise known as "acting".

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Jews play non-Jews all the time, why couldn't a non-Jew play a Jew too?

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Having a Jewish man play Moses wouldn't have made the movie any better.

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Christian Bale IS a Jewish man.

He shortened his last name from Balerosenblumenthalovitchensteinberg for his acting career.

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Yes, they could. Namely, Oded Fehr. Why they didn't, I still wonder. He did an exellent job as Ardeth Bay in The mummy.

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