From an early stint on The Richard Pryor Show to one-woman stage acts and standup routines to recurring roles on Roseanne, Pose, and American Horror Story, actress Sandra Bernhard has booked just a handful of film roles that truly allow her talents to shine. Bernhard is dangerously electric in her breakout big-screen role as Masha, an Upper West Side obsessive fangirl who teams up with zealous aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) to kidnap their favorite late-night host (Jerry Lewis). From Masha’s quip about Shavuos to Yiddish vocabulary, writer Paul D. Zimmerman infuses his script with rhythms familiar to that particularly American brand of Jewish humor.