| re: Is it time for a CITY OF ANGELS revival? Perhaps starring.....? | |
| Posted by: jo 07:49 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Is it time for a CITY OF ANGELS revival? Perhaps starring.....? - BroadwayTonyJ 02:12 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| Jackman played dual characters in Chris Nolan's The Prestige. The obsessed magician Robert Angier and the drunken double ( who had a bit of facial prosthetics) Root. Their personas were in direct contrast to each other -- one had the air of a man on a mission to prove that he was the best magician at that time and the other was the actor hired for his resemblance but who was too drunk to be reliable. Actually, Hugh portrayed a third personality in the movie - the lowkey English lord ( Lord Caldlow who adopted the Borden daughter). In reality, he was the English lord who did not want to embarrass his family because he chose to be a magician and kept his identity unknown. Jackman has lately been drawing critical raves for his acting versatility these days ( from Logan to Greatest Showman to Bad Education) and for other past acting portrayals. An early indication was an Aronofsky sci-fi drama where Hugh portrayed 3 personas from three different times ( a Spanish conquistador, an obsessed doctor racing against time to discover a cure for his dying wife's illness, and a man of the future seeking his own path to immortality). Also interesting was his transformation in Les Miserables -- from hardened convict to a respected town mayor to a man who joined the revolutionaries for the sake of his daughter. The late Larry Gelbart probably thought he had the versatility to portray 2 characters with different personas but shared some similarity because Stone was a creation of Stine's mind. |
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