Roddy McDowall badly miscast

Oliver Reed would have brought a different vibe, certainly, and I know he would have done a great job. I thought Roddy McDowall was excellent and brought a slightly decadent vibe, which was in keeping with the times, much in the same way Jay Robinson did, to The Robe. He was a necessary contrast to Burton's red-blooded macho which would have been too similar to Reed's.

"No, I don't like to cook, but I have a chicken in the icebox, and you're eating it."

I thought he kind of resembles the statues of Augustus I've seen.

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