When you've got a big, sprawling historical epic like Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," all the attention tends to swirl around the lead, particularly when you've got such a magnetic one in the form of multiple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis playing the man behind the beard.
But who are the men behind the man behind the beard?
"Lincoln" boasts one of the most impressive supporting casts in recent memory, and, since many of them are going untrumpeted in the trailers and media attention surrounding the film, we've got them front and center so you can keep an eye out for 'em as Day-Lewis chews the scenery.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Levitt has followed in some mighty big footsteps this year, playing the heir to the Batman legacy in "The Dark Knight Rises," a young Bruce Willis in "Looper" and now Robert Todd Lincoln, the great man's only surviving son. Fun Fact: Sometime in the...
But who are the men behind the man behind the beard?
"Lincoln" boasts one of the most impressive supporting casts in recent memory, and, since many of them are going untrumpeted in the trailers and media attention surrounding the film, we've got them front and center so you can keep an eye out for 'em as Day-Lewis chews the scenery.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Levitt has followed in some mighty big footsteps this year, playing the heir to the Batman legacy in "The Dark Knight Rises," a young Bruce Willis in "Looper" and now Robert Todd Lincoln, the great man's only surviving son. Fun Fact: Sometime in the...
- 11/7/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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...
- 9/21/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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