Posted on 10/14/2017 7:30:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
In almost all instances actors portraying real life people look better (often much better) than their counterparts. Sometimes it is shocking to check what real life people look like after watching the actors portray them.
However there is one instance I can think of where the actor portraying a real life person was actually uglier than the person he was portraying. That would be in the movie "The Fifth Estate" about Julian Assange and Wikileaks. And who portrayed Julian Assange? Benedict Cumberbatch who looks weird and frightening. I know that Assange hated that movie. I wonder if part of the reason is that Cumberbatch has a strange face?
I thought John Goodman as Babe Ruth was such a case. .
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash for sure.
Madonna as Evita.
Streep as Thatcher.
Anyone trying to play Marilyn.
Patton was certainly more refined in appearance than George C Scott. And Patton’s voice was not gruff or loud. He had a mild non-rhotic accent that he must have picked up from his Virginia ancestry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjnWXFTQkM
That doesn't make sense, because Rosie O'Donnell is not a real person.
Poor Salieri-——he lived too long.
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I think the one on the left is Miley Cyrus.
Madonna playing Evita Perone.
I don’t know who that actor is on the bottom, but Patton (top) just looks how a General should look. ;)
Interesting - I know a guy, skinny, quiet, smart, does art and sculpting - looks the part. Later I found out he was a Ranger Special Forces in Vietnam!
Mariel Hemingway playing Dorothy Stratten (Playmate of the Year) in Star 80 (1983).
When the war began, Lee was a clean shaven with dark black hair. Within 5 years he had aged 20 years and was gray with a gray beard.
Yeah, Scott out-Pattoned Patton. LOL
Tina “Scarface” Fey playing Governor Sarah Palin.
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash for sure.
In broad daylight.
Brian Dennehey played a character based off Ken McElroy.
I was in Skidmore for a job a few years ago. My customer was a local that grew up there. When I asked about Skidmores notoriety he acted as if I never said it. It was very strange but I understood and respected him for it. McElroy was a no good bastard.
His wife (victim) Trinia just died a few years back. She lived in southern Missouri.
Getchen Mol is hot but the real Bettie Page was on fire.
I wouldn’t call Mariel ugly (certainly not in 1983). She wasn’t well-endowed enough for the part, though. A Dorothy clone was going to be tough to cast, especially such a mature-looking 20. Jamie Lee Curtis played her in another version, and while she was decently well-endowed, was too mannish and looked too much like her mother, Janet Leigh.
The closest book to film I have seen is Catch-22.
I had read the book so many times that when my
wife and I went to the film’s premiere, I sat in
the theater mouthing nearly every line of dialogue as it was being spoken on screen.
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