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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 15:07:41 GMT
Inspired mostly by Felicity Jones being cast as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There's definitely a resemblance... I can't think of another actor who would be better, physically speaking:  I just hope she's improved her American accent since its last outing... It was pretty terrible. What are some other examples? Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln ( Lincoln) Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon ( Nixon) David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King ( Selma) Help me name some more? |
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Post by cherry68 on May 12, 2018 16:25:01 GMT
Not sure he's exactly an American icon, but Gary Oldman played Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK.
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Post by mhynson27 on May 12, 2018 16:54:12 GMT
This is taking the question a bit less seriously but:
Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland as Spider-Man
Christian Bale as Batman
Henry Cavill as Superman
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Post by stabcaesar on May 12, 2018 17:03:14 GMT
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs (though he's Irish)
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Post by ibbi on May 12, 2018 17:04:52 GMT
Ken Bran played FDR in Warm Springs, if you remember!
Toby Jones as Truman Capote in that stupid fucking movie.
A couple of the Dylan's in I'm Not There were Brits too!
Stephen Graham in Boardwalk Empire (and Public Enemies!)
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 17:49:25 GMT
mhynson27 - Garfield is as American as hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and apple pie! Same goes for Olivia de Havilland, Rebecca Hall, and Sienna Miller.  stabcaesar - Irish... Therefore, not British. ibbi - There are so many examples! Americans really don't seem to care. I can only think of a few off the top of my head for the inverse... Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher ( The Iron Lady) and Emmeline Pankhurst ( Suffragette), Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter ( Miss Potter), and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill ( The Crown).
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Post by bob-coppola on May 12, 2018 21:58:15 GMT
I don't really mind. Even thought I consider myself to be a fluent english speaker, my hearing can't really detect phony accents, so there's not really reason for me not to buy someone as a certain nationality. But I sort of understand the brits/yankees who hate this, since I loathe how they cast spanish Javier Bardem as a brazilian.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on May 12, 2018 22:46:35 GMT
Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams (I Saw the Light)
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Post by thomasjerome on May 12, 2018 23:22:55 GMT
Jeremy Irons as F. Scott Fitzgerald in "Last Call"
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2018 0:11:30 GMT
Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams ( I Saw the Light) Hiddleston also appeared as F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris. bob-coppola - I don't really mind, either. I really love many of the performances that have been mentioned in this thread. |
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Post by Nikan on May 19, 2018 22:41:28 GMT
Christian Bale in AMERICAN PSYCHO.
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