And if my opinion counts, it's seriously one of the best casting choices Hollywood has ever made — I mean, look at this comparison! Rooney is basically Audrey's clone!
This got me thinking about all of the TV/movie biopics out there, and the good vs. bad casting choices Hollywood has made. So, here are some actors who looked *just* like the famous people they portrayed, and actors who totally didn't:
What the real Freddie Mercury looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Kristen Stewart looked like as Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010):
What the real Joan Jett looks like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Zoe Saldana looked like as Nina Simone in Nina (2016):
What the real Nina Simone looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Denzel Washington looked like as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992):
What the real Malcolm X looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Javier Bardem looked like as Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021):
What the real Desi Arnaz looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Viola Davis looks like as Michelle Obama in the upcoming miniseries The First Lady (2022):
What the real Michelle Obama looks like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Madonna looked like as Eva Perón in Evita (1996):
What the real Eva Perón looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Jessica Chastain looked like as Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021):
What the real Tammy Faye Bakker looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Diana Ross looked like as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972):
What the real Billie Holiday looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Taron Egerton looked like as Elton John in Rocketman (2019):
What the real Elton John looks like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Martin Sheen looked like as John F. Kennedy in Kennedy (1983):
What the real John F. Kennedy looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Sterling K. Brown looked like as Christopher Darden in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016):
What the real Christopher Darden looks like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Jessica Lange looked like as Joan Crawford in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017):
What the real Joan Crawford looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Drew Barrymore looked like as Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens (2009):
What the real Edith Bouvier Beale looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Tom Hanks looked like as Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019):
What the real Mister Rogers looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Lil Mama looked like as Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013):
What the real Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Angelina Jolie looked like as Gia Carangi in Gia (1998):
What the real Gia Carangi looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Halle Berry looked like as Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999):
What the real Dorothy Dandridge looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Eddie Murphy looked like as Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name (2019):
What the real Rudy Ray Moore looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Lily James looks like as Pamela Anderson in the upcoming series Pam & Tommy (2022):
What the real Pamela Anderson looks like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Aaron Taylor-Johnson looked like as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy (2009):
What the real John Lennon looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) looked like as Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records (2008):
What the real Chuck Berry looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Beyoncé looked like as Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008):
What the real Etta James looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Daniel Day-Lewis looked like as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012):
What the real Abraham Lincoln looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Lindsay Lohan looked like as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick (2013):
What the real Elizabeth Taylor looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Uzo Aduba looked like as Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America (2020):
What the real Shirley Chisholm looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Leonardo DiCaprio looked like as Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004):
What the real Howard Hughes looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Jennifer Lopez looked like as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in Selena (1997):
What the real Selena Quintanilla-Pérez looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What John Cusack looked like as Richard Nixon in The Butler (2013):
What the real Richard Nixon looked like:
HIT THE MARK: What Leslie Odom Jr. looked like as Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami... (2020):
What the real Sam Cooke looked like:
MISSED THE MARK: What Meryl Streep looked like as Florence Foster Jenkins in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016):
What the real Florence Foster Jenkins looked like:
And HIT THE MARK: What Renée Zellweger looked like as Judy Garland in Judy (2019):
What the real Judy Garland looked like:
If *you* could cast an actor to portray a famous person in a TV/movie biopic, who would it be? Let us know in the comments below!