Last year Bradley Cooper caught some flack when he released a trailer of his Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, which showed him with a prosthetic schnozz to simulate Bernstein’s rather large probiscis. That didn’t bother me as I thought it was pretty realistic, as these photos demonstrate. In my opinion, of course.

On the other hand, in the recent Scriptnotes podcast, Realistic but Distracting, John August found all the smoking by all the characters in nearly all the scenes to be a distraction. While it was certainly realistic for the time depicted (50s, 60s, 70s), and Leonard Bernstein did die from a smoking related cancer, August questioned the need for such a full-throated, realistic depiction on the screen of human chimneys in this day and age, suggesting that perhaps, although he did not use the phrase, less is more.

His partner on the podcast, Craig Mazin, meanwhile did not find the smoking quite so distracting, so perhaps your mileage will vary.