I'm just curious....if you could have cast younger actors to portray De Niro, Pesci and Pacino, who?
If you could have cast younger actors to portray the earlier lives of the three main characters, who would they have been?
shareMaybe Adrian Brody as Pacino?
sharePacino does not look like Hoffa and Adrian definitely doesn't look like Hoffa.
shareThe thread is about the actors though, not the real life characters.
shareI agree that the thread is about the actors and not the characters they play.
On the other hand though, I also think that the casting directors should at least try to make an effort to cast someone who looks like their character.
That aside, I think Gary Oldman might have been a good Jimmy Hoffa. He doesn't really look a lot like him a ton though, maybe if he gained a bit of weight beforehand?
I think the "de-aging" technology is kind of interesting and would be cool for little flashback scenes here and there. To use it for like 1/3rd of the film was a little much though, especially since it's still in its infancy and has a lot of kinks to be ironed out.
De Niro still moved like an old man and it was obvious that he's not the young lad he was billed to play. (Also, De Niro is what, 5'10"? Sheeran was what, 6'4"-6'5"?)
I think with the "young" characters having such a significant amount of screentime, that they should have given the part(s) to a younger generation though.