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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: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭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: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭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: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #32
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,400 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #33
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


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

    They deleted all the paunches!


  • #34
    DebDynamite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


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


  • #35
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    I think I have this one won...

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


  • #36
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


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

    They kinda say it at start of the film.


  • #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.


  • #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.


  • #40
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,400 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,496 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #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.


  • #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


  • #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.


  • #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.


  • #47
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭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.


  • #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.


  • #49
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    Stojkovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Stojkovic


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


  • #51
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


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


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