Post by Prime etc. on May 9, 2021 19:57:46 GMT
May 9, 2021 19:09:04 GMT Vits said:
You don't want actors to be hired to play characters that are too physically different? That's odd. Usually the argument thrown around online to complain about agendas and such is the complete opposite.Not when it is used as a spfx stunt like it is now.
John Huston never directed actors because he picked people who were right for the part so he didnt have to.
These days they shoehorn someone into roles they would not have used decades ago because they aren't the right type.
Leonardo DiCaprio would never have starred in a western or cop series in the 1960s.
He's not alpha enough for it. Biologically he's not.
He doesn't have the intensity for it. I used to say he's more like Chester than Marshall Dillon but even Dennis Weaver was a stronger personality--even Roddy McDowall was much more intense than DiCaprio or Mark Wahlberg and McDowall usually played the wimpier (physically) type character.
Makeup and bodybuilding doesn't change that.
Can you imagine someone saying J Edgar Hoover could have been a doppleganger for Howard Hughes?
No -because they are totally different. They look and act nothing alike.
So hiring one actor to play two totally different people--it's a makeup trick more than acting skill in this case.
DiCaprio is definitely not the man of a thousand faces.