The Mummy actor Billy Zane is ready for his own McConaissance. Billy has impressed fans with his first look photos from the upcoming Marlon Brando biopic, Waltzing With Brando. Marlon Brando was one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, who played the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather among other films. (Also read: Donald Trump faces lawsuit threat after biopic portrays him as rapist,
uncanny resemblance
The new pictures shared by Billy on Instagram and some Hollywood fan pages show Billy as Brando. The resemblance is truly uncanny. With the same hairline and similar facial expressions, Billy has played the character very well.
Fans of the actor also hoped the film would be good. “I really hope this is a good movie but wow this is so weird I can’t get over it,” wrote one fan on Instagram. “None of these photos are actually of Brando? Holy crap,” another said. “Look, Bradley Cooper, you should do a biopic like this,” another person added.
About the film and Marlon Brando
Directed by Bill Fishman, the film’s official synopsis reads, “Movie star Marlon Brando hires a Los Angeles architect to build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a small uninhabited island in Tahiti.” The film is based on the book Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti by architect Bernard Judge.
Billy previously spoke about Marlon Brando in an interview with Deadline. “Nobody touched the issues at the time. He advocated for civil rights, he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. He took steps for civil rights; he did that for indigenous rights. Nobody knows what he did for the environment as an activist and what his vision was about what would really happen. [become] climate crisis.”
Marlon Brando, an iconic American actor, revolutionized acting with his natural style. Born in 1924, he rose to fame with A Streetcar Named Desire and won Oscars for On the Waterfront and The Godfather. Known for his strong acting and rebellious nature, Brando remains a cinematic legend who has influenced generations of actors.
