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Local actor and old friend George Weinberg-Harter beat me to it with his response to my review of Hitchcock posted on Facebook: "Hopkins looks neither like himself nor like Hitch. An excellent actor who might have been perfect in the role, without special make-up, is Timothy Spall, alas."
News first leaked that two Hitchcock biopics were in the works around the time The King's Speech, which features Spall as Winston Churchill, was released. I remember thinking what a great Hitchcock he would make.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36252/
Instead of going for corporeality they slap a corpulent costume on a known commodity. Anthony Hopkins is a household name and Timothy Spall is a "the name sounds familiar, but I cannot place him."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36240/
The British character actor is probably best known as Peter Pettigrew in a pair of Harry Potter films, but having never made my it all the way through one of them, I find myself in no position to comment.
My Spall of choice is Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, the true-life story of Britain's most productive (and commiserative) executioner.
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Toby Jones came closer to capturing the look and sound of Hitchcock in the equally dreadful, The Girl. The made-for-cable biopic also got it right by casting Imelda Staunton as Alma Reville aka Mrs. Hitch.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36251/
As for the bold and beautiful Helen Mirren as the big screen's answer to the unassuming Mrs. H, I guess we should be thankful that Fox Searchlight didn't go with Selena Gomez.
Local actor and old friend George Weinberg-Harter beat me to it with his response to my review of Hitchcock posted on Facebook: "Hopkins looks neither like himself nor like Hitch. An excellent actor who might have been perfect in the role, without special make-up, is Timothy Spall, alas."
News first leaked that two Hitchcock biopics were in the works around the time The King's Speech, which features Spall as Winston Churchill, was released. I remember thinking what a great Hitchcock he would make.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36252/
Instead of going for corporeality they slap a corpulent costume on a known commodity. Anthony Hopkins is a household name and Timothy Spall is a "the name sounds familiar, but I cannot place him."
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36240/
The British character actor is probably best known as Peter Pettigrew in a pair of Harry Potter films, but having never made my it all the way through one of them, I find myself in no position to comment.
My Spall of choice is Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, the true-life story of Britain's most productive (and commiserative) executioner.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36249/
Toby Jones came closer to capturing the look and sound of Hitchcock in the equally dreadful, The Girl. The made-for-cable biopic also got it right by casting Imelda Staunton as Alma Reville aka Mrs. Hitch.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/nov/30/36251/
As for the bold and beautiful Helen Mirren as the big screen's answer to the unassuming Mrs. H, I guess we should be thankful that Fox Searchlight didn't go with Selena Gomez.