15 Of The Most Compelling Hollywood Portrayals Of Historic People

Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs – Jobs (2013)

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Ashton Kutcher delivered what may have been one of the most convincing portrayals in movie’s history when he played Steve Jobs in the biopic Jobs. Although a lot of people see the film as a complete exaggeration of the Apple co-founder’s life, the way Kutcher acted out Steve Job’s character was compelling. Kutcher consumed everything there is to know about Jobs to prepare for the role. He read about his life and even went to a fruitarian diet, which actually made the actor sick for a while. People on set were actually surprised about the incredible amount of effort Kutcher gave to bring Steve Jobs back to life.

Daniel DayLewis as Abraham Lincoln – Lincoln (2012)

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Daniel Day-Lewis is an incredible method actor, a quality which he once more displayed while portraying Abraham Lincoln in the movie Lincoln, which won him his third Best Actor Oscar award. His method is sometimes described by film crew members as “madness.” He would stay in character at all times, even when films have long stopped rolling. Although it helped that his tall and slender figure made him resemble the historic U.S. president more nearly than anyone who ever played the same character, he still consumed any information he could find about Lincoln. He’d go through civil war era photos and re-enact the images. He wanted everything to be precise, an obsession which paid off when his portrayal was received with so much adoration.

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