When actors look NOTHING like the real life character they are portraying

[TurcoLoco]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

One white man playing an Asian character that was creepily convincing was Christopher Lee as 'Fun Manchu' back in the 60s. Maybe it's because his last name could also be Asian, haha.



Couldn't find any youtube clips unfortunately.

That is true, I have another one that had me fooled initially:
Remo Williams: Adventure Begins (1985), Joel Grey playing the Korean Martial Arts Master...which proved to me that sometimes, finding the right actor who can play the part and pull it off with some make-up is just as good. After all, they are called actors not look-a-likers. Still, there are bunch of movies where the characters neither looked the part nor was able pull it off that good. Couple of them comes to mind: Timothy Olyphant as the main character in the movie Hitman and Thomas Jane as The Punisher.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Has there ever been a role Meryl has not done a wonderful job at? That woman has got to be the best actress who has ever lived. She was equally believable as Julia Child and as Margaret Thatcher.

And Lindy Chamberlain. ("A dingo ate my baby")

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Aspe4

This is not totally in line with the topic but is tangentially related. Has anyone ever seen that TV show that was on the Discovery Channel called A Haunting? Reruns now play on some other cable network. Anyhoo, it's about real people who supposedly experience ghostly phenomenon and they recount it to the camera while actors recreate the occurrences. Ninety percent of the time the real-life people were butt-ugly but the actors playing them were always extremely attractive!

You see this on the true-crime shows. They have renactments with actors playing the parts of the murderers and victims, but in the end you often see pictures of the real people, and they rarely look anything like the actors.

If they would change this, there could open up a whole new realm of work possibilities for good-but-homely actors!