No episódio Friends O cara com Ross e Monica's Prime , Joey auditions com um diretor de elenco; o enredo é como descrito:
The Casting Director: Terrific! Well uh, there’s one more thing. Uhh, uh it’s really important to the director that everything in this movie is authentic. Yeah and so in your love scene with Sarah she talks about how she’s never seen a naked man who wasn’t Jewish. So… (Laughs.)
Joey: So…What?
The Casting Director: So uh well the director is insisting that whoever play that part be authentically, anatomically not Jewish. Do you know what I’m saying?
Joey: Yes!
The Casting Director: Okay.
Joey: No. What?
The Casting Director: An Italian Catholic immigrant at this time would not be…
Joey: Bar Mitzvahed?
(The casting director shakes her head.)
(Joey thinks about it and finally realizes what she means.)
Então, mais tarde, no apartamento de Monica
[Scene: Monica and Chandler's, Joey is telling Monica what the casting director was trying to get too.]
Monica: So to get this part you can’t be?
Joey: Nope.
Monica: But you are?
Joey: Yep.
Monica: But you told them you weren’t?
Joey: That’s right.
Monica: Wow! Wow! And it’s definitely all gone? There’s nothing there to work with? (Joey glares at her.) What were you thinking?
Estou sentindo falta de algo aqui? O que exatamente o diretor de elenco quer dizer?
Eles significam seu prepúcio. Joey foi circuncidado , o que significa que seu prepúcio foi removido quando ele era jovem. Assim, ele e Monica tentam moldar um falso prepúcio para que ele possa retratar um homem não circuncidado, um plano que acaba fracassando.
Embora Joey seja um católico italiano, a circuncisão é um procedimento comum em todo o mundo e estima-se que 30% dos homens no mundo e cerca de 55% dos homens nos EUA são circuncidados.
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