Actors vs Real Life Characters in Biopic Movies (Side-By-Side) #Video

Hello guys and welcome back to Mystery Scoop. Today, let's see a comparison between actors and the real life characters they played. Perhaps one of the toughest jobs for an actor, is to play a real life person in a biopic movie. Despite having sufficient skills to do so, they can't just simply reinvent the person's mannerisms or character traits. They actually have to stay true to who that person was in real life, the biggest challenge of the whole job. The visual presentation via wardrobe and makeup also play a key role. But, most importantly of all, actor's physical traits need to match those of the people they're depicting, to make a visually satisfying performance. Please let us know in the comments section below, who do you think was best on this list in portraying their characters on screen.

Please check the video to see side-by-side photos of biopic actors and real life people they played.

Featured in this video:
00:00​ Intro
00:11​ Gary Oldman as Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994);
00:19​ Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in Lust For Life (1956);
00:27​ Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006);
00:35​ Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018);
00:43​ Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009);
00:51​ Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs (2013);
00:59​ Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane Wilde in The Theory of Everything (2014);
01:07​ Johnny Depp as James Bulger in Black Mass (2015);
01:15​ Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman (2019);
01:23​ Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001);
01:31​ Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious in Sid And Nancy (1986);
01:46​ Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man (2018);
02:01​ Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992);
02:16​ Brad Pitt as Jesse James in The Assassination Of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007);
02:31​ Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012);
02:46​ Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004);
03:01​ Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004);
03:16​ Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie (2016);
03:31​ Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982);
03:46​ Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in Miles Ahead (2015);
04:01​ Jamal Woolard as Notorius B.I.G. in Notorius (2009);
04:16​ Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980);
04:31​ Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002);
04:46​ Forest Whitaker as Charlie Parker in Bird (1988);
05:01​ Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992);
05:16​ Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgewick in Factory Girl (2006);
05:31​ Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena (1997);
05:47​ Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008);
06:01​ Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady (2012);
06:16​ Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get On Up (2014);
06:31​ Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba (1987);
06:46​ Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara in Che (2008);
07:01​ Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005);
07:16​ Peter O'Toole as T.E.Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962);
07:31​ Gary Busey as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (1978).
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