Actually, cknick was the one who brought up the Jewish thing, saying Jeremy Jordan doesn't look like "a skinny Jew from Brooklyn" (Leo Frank was born in Texas, like I said, although he did move to New York; p.s., do skinny Jews in Brooklyn look different from skinny Jews from Texas?).
It is pretty ironic to bring up the Jewish thing as a strike 'against' the first actual Jewish actor to play the role! (not to mention the first actor who was born in the same state as Leo Frank).
I repeat, how do you know he doesn't identify as Jewish? Being non-religious has absolutely nothing to do with it, and many American Jews use that exact line, "spiritual, not religious", etc. It doesn't make them any less Jewish.
I did not congratulate Jeremy Jordan on his "religion", I applauded the accuracy of his background, which is, like Leo Frank's, Southern Jewish.
Updated On: 12/18/14 at 05:49 PM