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Actors Who Were Beyond Perfect For Their Roles
You won’t believe the lengths some of these actors went to in order to play these roles.
Aside from looking strikingly similar to him, he researched Malcolm X's life for an entire year poring over every little bit of information that he could get his hands on in order to give the character justice. On playing the real-life crime boss, he said that he didn't have much material to work with and even asked if he could visit Bulger in prison which was eventually denied. In order to even come close to looking like Aileen, she chopped off her hair, darkened it, made her eyes brown, gained 30 pounds, and learned to speak with a tough dental prosthetic-induced overbite.
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