Jackie Earle Haley Joins Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’
From SlashFilm.com:
The massive cast of Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln has been increased by one. Jackie Earle Haley will play Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Haley bears more than a slight resemblance to Stephens, and I’m happy to see the actor cast in a prestige picture. I’m hoping the role won’t be the boilerplate antagonist type. Stephens was noted for the Cornerstone Speech, delivered prior to the Civil War, in 1961 in Savannah, GA.:
Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
And yet prior to a life in politics, Stephens made a name for himself as an attorney who successfully defended the wrongly accused; one frequently cited case saw him successfully defending a slave accused of murder. So there’s a bit more to the character than being simply a blinkered defender of slavery.
Do you think this guy doesn't know Jackie doesn't look exactly like his Freddy make up or...?
The massive cast of Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln has been increased by one. Jackie Earle Haley will play Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Haley bears more than a slight resemblance to Stephens, and I’m happy to see the actor cast in a prestige picture. I’m hoping the role won’t be the boilerplate antagonist type. Stephens was noted for the Cornerstone Speech, delivered prior to the Civil War, in 1961 in Savannah, GA.:
Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
And yet prior to a life in politics, Stephens made a name for himself as an attorney who successfully defended the wrongly accused; one frequently cited case saw him successfully defending a slave accused of murder. So there’s a bit more to the character than being simply a blinkered defender of slavery.
Do you think this guy doesn't know Jackie doesn't look exactly like his Freddy make up or...?