When actors look NOTHING like the real life character they are portraying (filming, cast)
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Yeah. But Queen Latifa, whom I admire tremendously, was only about 13 at most when the movie was made. Even so, there were other excellent women who could have played Billie Holliday better than Diana. Diana was way to slender and had a voice far to pretty to ever make a good Billie Holliday.
it's a film that is begging for a new treatment.
This is a 2-year old message, but I have to comment that hopefully with Audra McDonald's Tony win for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, there will be increased interest in a new Billie Holliday movie. I saw this performance on Broadway, and she was truly AMAZING in the role. She may not look like Billie Holliday, but she absolutely becomes her.
Nice links, Suburban _Guy. Also, they should have glamored down Salem Hayek more to look like Frida Kahlo because that unibrow just didn't do it.
Also, I don't know why, but I thought that there was a bit of a similarity between John Wayne and Genghis Kahn. Although, I'm sure that the Asian community wouldn't agree with that.
Plus, I actually thought that Billie Holiday looks a bit like Nia Long.
I'm not sure that every role needs to be portrayed by someone who looks like the person the movie is based on. If someone has an iconic image, it's more important that the portrayer have at least a loose resemblance. Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Margaret Thatcher ... if there's no resemblance, it loses believability.
But Pancho Barnes? Francine Hughes? Jimmy Doolittle? Even John Adams? Most people have no clue what these people actually look like without looking up a picture. They could really be played by anyone.
Who says they don't try to find someone that looks like them? But with so many commitments and only so many actors and directors and producers who get along with each other, sometimes their first choice isn't available. Or their 2nd or 3rd.
I'm not sure that every role needs to be portrayed by someone who looks like the person the movie is based on. If someone has an iconic image, it's more important that the portrayer have at least a loose resemblance. Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Margaret Thatcher ... if there's no resemblance, it loses believability.
Well, not necessarily.
I had always been intertersed in seeing Savings Mr. Banks, but probably put off seeing it because I was a bit put off that they got Tom Hanks to play Walt Disney.(Even Tom Hanks admitted that he didn't have a facial structure that resembled Walt Disney's.) However, after finally seeing the movie several weeks ago, I was able to get into the 'illusion' of the movie because the movie was so good and Hanks is such an honest and believable actor. However, I must admit that I was a bit distracted during the first part of the movie with Hanks playing Disney, but eventually, that went away for the most part.
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Originally Posted by apexgds
But Pancho Barnes? Francine Hughes? Jimmy Doolittle? Even John Adams? Most people have no clue what these people actually look like without looking up a picture. They could really be played by anyone.
Michelle Williams doesn't look like Marilyn Monroe, but in the film "My Week with Marilyn"(for which she got an Oscar nomination) she was amazing. You forget that she doesn't look exactly like Monroe.
Her acting makes you believe she is Monroe.
Diana Ross in her screen debut as Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings the Blues" also nailed it, doesn't look like Holiday.
Again it's called acting, would rather have someone who can pull off the role rather than a carbon copy who can't.
I had always been intertersed in seeing Savings Mr. Banks, but probably put off seeing it because I was a bit put off that they got Tom Hanks to play Walt Disney.(Even Tom Hanks admitted that he didn't have a facial structure that resembled Walt Disney's.) However, after finally seeing the movie several weeks ago, I was able to get into the 'illusion' of the movie because the movie was so good and Hanks is such an honest and believable actor. However, I must admit that I was a bit distracted during the first part of the movie with Hanks playing Disney, but eventually, that went away for the most part.
Tom Hanks may not be a mirror image of Walt Disney, but he much more closely resembles him than just about any other actor in Hollywood. He resembles Disney as much as Meryl Streep resembles Margaret Thatcher or Julia Child. There is enough resemblance for there to be believability.
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