Actress: Clinton's voice 'hard to imitate'

Posted By P.J. Aroon Monday, August 31, 2009 - 5:31 PM Share

Thumbnail from Arts Beat blog, New York Times, Aug. 27, 2009, Steve ForrestActress Hope Davis, who'll be playing Hillary Clinton in the forthcoming film The Special Relationship, has a makeup team that is doing a surprisingly good job at making her look like the former first lady (the movie takes place from the mid-1990s to 2000). Davis told the New York Times that she uses wigs, false teeth, and pantsuits made "exactly to spec" to transform herself into a Clinton look-alike.

The hard part, though, is Clinton's accent. Davis told the Times, "Her accent has changed a bit over the years. In 1992, when she became first lady, she had quite a bit of Arkansas still in her speech from her 13 years there. That’s really gone now. So her accent has kind of shifted over time but she’s lived in very different places. So that became tricky."

Check out the thumbnail image above from the Times. She really does look like Clinton!

Photo: Thumbnail from New York Times, Steve Forrest for The New York Times

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September 12, 2009

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I wanna watch her life story.Hope Davis really work hard to portray her best for Hillary. The new 9 movie may not live up to its hype – but then again, it's been demonstrated time and again that critics don't know what they're talking about. The 9 movie reviews haven't been stellar. However, it has a heavyweight cast – Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, and an upstart director called Tim Burton. (He makes heavy waves.) It's a post apocalyptic CGI film in which machines have obliterated mankind, and small robots get into adventures, not to be confused with District 9, about aliens trapped on earth in South Africa – who aren't to be confused with the Springboks. Still, the 9 movie is a Tim Burton film, which usually means a big studio pay day.

 

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