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Actors who looked nothing like the real life people they were playing

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  • #2
    The Dom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭The Dom


    John Hurt looked nothing at all like Joseph Merrick.


  • #3
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The Dom wrote: »
    John Hurt looked nothing at all like Joseph Merrick.

    Yeah. They should have hired shane mcgowan


  • #4
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    None of the actors in The Aviator looked like who they were supposed to look like.


  • #5
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    300. The actors didn't even look like the actors.


  • #6
    leonidas83
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭leonidas83


    Colin Farrell trying to look like Alexander the Great with those blonde highlights, jesus wept


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Zoe Saldana in Avatar looks nothing like Neytiri, the character she plays.


  • #8
    D-FENS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭D-FENS


    Alanis Morissette as God in Dogma
    I mean come on, everyone knows he has a big beard and doesn’t exist


  • #9
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    William Mapother played Jason Thomas in the film 9/11.

    Apparantly whilst everyone noticed the big heroic marine locating and rescuing people from the rubble, no one noticed that he is black.


  • #10
    stefan idiot jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Mel Gibson the dwarf playing a giant man who wielded a huge sword.

    Freedom.


  • #11
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Alan Rickman was pretty close imo even Dev said so himself.


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  • #12
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    D-FENS wrote: »
    Alanis Morissette as God in Dogma
    I mean come on, everyone knows he has a big beard and doesn’t exist


    Neither does alanis morrisette anymore. I think they nailed it.


  • #13
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    The film about that dolphin with the prosthetic tale, apparantly the two white specialists, one of them Irish, look very much like morgan freeman? So much so he plays both of them,at the same time.


  • #14
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Christ, this could be a lengthy thread.
    Actors being actors and not doppelgangers shock!

    Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar springs to mind here though.


  • #15
    mud_guard
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46 ✭mud_guard


    sean penn in carlitos way

    gary oldman in any number of films


  • #16
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Peter O'Toole 6'4" as TE Lawrence 5'3"


  • #17
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Zoe Saldana in Avatar looks nothing like Neytiri, the character she plays.

    She doesn't look like Uhura either.


  • #18
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    IMO Liam neeson looked nothing like mick Collins but Brendan Gleason fits Michael Collins description a lot more


  • #19
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    In the old days they never even attempted verisimilitude - in "the Conqueror" Genghis Khan was played by John Wayne.


  • #20
    Tea-a-Maria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Tea-a-Maria


    Argo did a really good job of getting similar looking actors to the real life characters...with the excpetion of Ben Affleck,who plays some Hispanic guy!


  • #21
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,289 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Jaws.

    Feckin big rubber toy.


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  • #22
    Penny Dreadful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Penny Dreadful


    Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria.


  • #23
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Zoe Saldana in Avatar looks nothing like Neytiri, the character she plays.

    She wasn't supposed to. The na'vi are the natives so they just have the actors voices.
    But the avatars were create using the DNA from the natives and the humans who were going to be them. So therefore look like them. Sigourney weaver looks like hers and Sam looks like his because its created from their DNA


  • #24
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Russell Crowe as John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.

    Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich.


  • #25
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    dodderangler wrote: »
    IMO Liam neeson looked nothing like mick Collins but Brendan Gleason fits Michael Collins description a lot more

    Agreed. Gleeson was superb as Collins in The Treaty, produced by RTE back in the early 90's. Portrayed him as a charming bully.


  • #26
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Gary Busey as Buddy Holly. Kurt Russell as Elvis. Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash. Even more than Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon didn't even look remotely like June Carter Cash.


  • #27
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    stefan idiot jones wrote: »
    Mel Gibson the dwarf playing a giant man who wielded a huge sword.

    Freedom.

    No-one really knows what Wallace looked like tbf, there is a description of him as being a 'giant' but witten a couple of centuries after his death.


  • #28
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    mike65 wrote: »
    Peter O'Toole 6'4" as TE Lawrence 5'3"

    Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal :D


  • #29
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover.


  • #30
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    dodderangler wrote: »
    She wasn't supposed to. The na'vi are the natives so they just have the actors voices.
    But the avatars were create using the DNA from the natives and the humans who were going to be them. So therefore look like them. Sigourney weaver looks like hers and Sam looks like his because its created from their DNA

    NEEEEEERRRDDDDDD!!!!!!! :pac:


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  • #31
    Hannibal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭Hannibal


    Tom Cruise looked nothing like Jack Reacher.


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