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

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    #32
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    We've all watched a tv series or a movie with some actor playing a real life person, either still living or dead. And I got to thinking, how many of them actually looked anything like the person they were playing. Two that cometo mind are Alan Rickman who played Eamon DeValera in the the Michael Collins film and Anthony Hopkins who played Richard Nixon, like come on, you've got to be kidding me.

    http://i2.listal.com/image/1194692/500full.jpg

    http://www.elcorso.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nixon.jpg

    Looked more like Nixon than he looked like the lead in Othello


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    #33
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    Ush1 wrote: »
    300. The actors didn't even look like the actors.

    They deleted all the paunches!


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    #34
    DebDynamite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,615 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    Jonathan Rhys Meyers looked nothing like Henry VIII in The Tudors :D


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    #35
    Grayditch
    Registered Users Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    I think I have this one won...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1K0Y-I6vg


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    #36
    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Neither does alanis morrisette anymore. I think they nailed it.

    Spot on, that was one of the funniest scenes in the movie.



    And wierdly Alanis Morrisette is kinda sexy as God


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    #37
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    NEEEEEERRRDDDDDD!!!!!!! :pac:

    They kinda say it at start of the film.


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    #38
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


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

    Totally agree, Brendan Gleeson looked more like Mick Collins and also, Irish actor Barry McGovern looked a lot more like Dev than Alan Rickman did by a million miles.


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    #39
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Russell Crowe as John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.

    Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich.

    Yes and Erin Brockovich is way more attractive.


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    #40
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    Totally agree, Brendan Gleeson looked more like Mick Collins and also, Irish actor Barry McGovern looked a lot more like Dev than Alan Rickman did by a million miles.

    And Stephen Rea played Ned Broy in "Michael Collins" but has an uncanny resemblance to the real Harry Boland who was played by Aiden Quinn.


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    #41
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Gene hackman always felt a bit too stocky and wrinkly to be playing smooth headed Lex Luthor :D

    Edit: Sorry Mis-posted a fictional character ;)


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    #42
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,014 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    National Geo are running a Killing Kennedy tv film and Rob Lowe is playing the lead as JFK. Looks absolutely nothing like him.

    Greg Kinnear though portrayed him in a History Channel series a few years ago and was there was quite the resemblance


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    #43
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    Totally agree, Brendan Gleeson looked more like Mick Collins and also, Irish actor Barry McGovern looked a lot more like Dev than Alan Rickman did by a million miles.

    John Turturro was intended for the Dev role I believe.


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    #44
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher.....former army, over 6 feet tall, built like a tank etc etc


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    #45
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    castletownman wrote: »
    National Geo are running a Killing Kennedy tv film and Rob Lowe is playing the lead as JFK. Looks absolutely nothing like him.

    Greg Kinnear though portrayed him in a History Channel series a few years ago and was there was quite the resemblance

    I remember seeing that, good lookalike and a very under-rated actor too.


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    #46
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    I remember a made-for-t.v. movie about George Best that was made a few years back, they couldn't have picked a guy who looked less like George if they tried.


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    #47
    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,406 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    RedFormanFITA wrote: »
    I remember seeing that, good lookalike and a very under-rated actor too.

    I thought Bruce Greenwood in "13 Days" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309 was one of the better lookalikes for JFK.


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    #48
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Napper Hawkins wrote: »
    I remember a made-for-t.v. movie about George Best that was made a few years back, they couldn't have picked a guy who looked less like George if they tried.

    John Lynch.


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    #49
    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,406 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    John Lynch.

    I remember that film. Problem was, he was too dam ugly to play George. Film itself was poor too if I recall.

    Bestpicture.jpg


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    #50
    Stojkovic
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


    Any white person who's ever played the part of Jesus.


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    #51
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus. Like looking in a mirror


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    #52
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    The Hitler in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was awful, especially for such a recognisable person


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    #53
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Christian Bale as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).

    Heath Ledger as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).

    Ben Whishaw as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).

    Marcus Carl Franklin as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).

    Richard Gere as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).

    Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" (2007).


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    #54
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Brendan Gleeson as that short-arsed little runt, Martin Cahill.


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    #55
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    Apologies if it has been said before but the black lads who play the blonde birds in White Chicks.


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    #56
    The Big Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    The cane from Citizen Kane.


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    #57
    RedFormanFITA
    Registered Users Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭RedFormanFITA


    The Big Smoke wrote: »
    The cane from Citizen Kane.


    I know, he was so wooden, lol. :)


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    #58
    .jacksparrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,428 ✭✭✭.jacksparrow.


    Robert de niro as jimmy Conway in goodfellas.


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    #59
    [Deleted User]
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    George Clooney looked nothing like Batman


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    #60
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Russell Crowe as John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.
    Trying to look intelligent was a stretch.


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    #61
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Tom Cruise as an Irishman in Far and Away (or in any role).


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