Billy Zane IS Marlon Brando
Another biopic, another remarkable transformation.
Billy Zane transformed into “The Godfather” star Marlon Brando for the new biopic, “Waltzing with Brando.”
Zane, 58, posted images from the set — where he looks identical to Brando — on his Instagram Thursday.
The film, directed by Bill Fishman and based on Bernard Judge’s memoir called “Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti,” is up for sale at Cannes Film Festival.
“Waltzing with Brando” is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Academy Award-winning actor purchased the private island atoll Tetiaroa in the South Pacific, where he filmed 1962’s “Mutiny On The Bounty.”
Brando fell in love with Tetiaroa and recruited Judge, an architect, to build a village, home and eco-hotel on the island.
In an interview with Deadline, Zane, who is also a producer on the film, said the Brando project is “a love letter to Tahiti, and him and his passion.”
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 25, 2024 4:02 AM
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Didn’t Brando get repeated STIs from all his whoring in Tahiti?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 18, 2024 12:27 AM
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R1 he and his cronies from the film crew on his Bounty movie gave all the women the syph.
I don’t think they will put that in the film.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 18, 2024 12:33 AM
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That's probably the closest approximation of one actor by an another that I've seen. Remarkable.
Zane should do it again.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 18, 2024 2:04 AM
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I agree, R4.
Going back and forth between the photos, it's almost hard to tell which ones are Zane and which ones are Brando.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 18, 2024 2:09 AM
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I hope it shows recreations of on-set antics from the filming "Reflections in a Golden Eye."
"Cutting off her nipples with a pair of garden shears. You call that normal? My God! Garden shears!"
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 18, 2024 2:09 AM
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Brando was a complete asshole. I predict a heavy whitewashing.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 18, 2024 2:10 AM
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Great casting!
I remember back in high school when I went through my Billy Zane phase after TITANIC came out, I thought then that he would make a perfect young Brando.
But older Brando works, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 18, 2024 2:14 AM
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He could sit on my face any time he wants. He looks great.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 18, 2024 2:16 AM
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The photo of Zane as Brando circa Last Tango is eerie—Zane looks exactly like him.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 25, 2024 3:58 AM
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